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Diamandis, Peter H.
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Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Future, The.
Future, The -- Forecasting.
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Diamandis, Peter H.
Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Future, The.
Future, The -- Forecasting.
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Abundance [sound recording] : the future is better than you think / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.
by
Diamandis, Peter H.
Tantor Media, p2012.
Call #:
COMPACT
DISC
303
.483
D537a
Subjects
Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Future, The.
Future, The -- Forecasting.
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ISBN:
9781452607184
Alternate title:
Future is better than you think [sound recording]
Format:
[sound recording] :
Edition:
Unabridged.
Description:
9
compact
discs (10:30 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.
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?
Performers:
Read by Arthur Morey.
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.
Genre:
Adult books on CD.
Other authors:
Morey, Arthur.
Kotler, Steven, 1967-
Tantor Media.
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