The Industries of the Future
eBook - ePub

The Industries of the Future

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Industries of the Future

About this book

This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster.

As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries, the equivalent of two round-trips to the moon. From refugee camps in the Congo and Syrian war zones, to visiting the world's most powerful people in business and government, Ross's travels amounted to a four-year masterclass in the changing nature of innovation.

In The Industries of the Future, Ross distils his observations on the forces that are changing the world. He highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains how countries thrive or sputter. Ross examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including robotics, artificial intelligence, the commercialization of genomics, cybercrime and the impact of digital technology.

Blending storytelling and economic analysis, he answers questions on how we will need to adapt. Ross gives readers a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, now and tomorrow.

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Information

Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781471135262
eBook ISBN
9781471135279

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication page
  6. CONTENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. 1. HERE COME THE ROBOTS
  9. 2. THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN MACHINE
  10. 3. THE CODE-IFICATION OF MONEY, MARKETS, AND TRUST
  11. 4. THE WEAPONIZATION OF CODE
  12. 5. DATA: THE RAW MATERIAL OF THE INFORMATION AGE
  13. 6. THE GEOGRAPHY OF FUTURE MARKETS
  14. CONCLUSION: THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB YOU WILL EVER HAVE
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author

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