The Resource Abundance : the future is better than you think, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Abundance : the future is better than you think, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- Summary
- 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 entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
- Extent
- xi, 386 pages
- Contents
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- 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?
- Isbn
- 9781451614213
- Label
- Abundance : the future is better than you think
- Title
- Abundance
- Title remainder
- the future is better than you think
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism
- Title
- Abundance
- Summary
- Proposes that the current exponential progress of technology in certain fields will allow us to easily provide for the needs of all people within the near future, and profiles some of today's most promising advances toward that end
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 303.48/3
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- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- T173.8
- LC item number
- .D536 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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- Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
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- Abundance : the future is better than you think, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-356) and index
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- 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?
- Control code
- 19515660
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
- Extent
- xi, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451614213
- Lccn
- 2011039926
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