Abundance : the future is better than you think /
The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and...
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New York :
Free Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1: Perspective. Our grandest challenge
- Building the pyramid
- Seeing the forest through the trees
- It's not as bad as you think
- pt. 2: Exponential technologies. Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button
- The singularity is nearer
- pt. 3: Building the base of the pyramid. The tools of cooperation
- Water
- Feeding nine billion
- pt. 4: The forces of abundance. The DIY innovator
- The technophilanthropists
- The rising billion
- pt. 5: Peak of the pyramid. Energy
- Education
- Health care
- Freedom
- pt. 6: Steering faster. Driving innovation and breakthroughs
- Risk and failure
- Which way next?