Book review: “The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives” by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Diamandis is a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer and Kotler is a bestselling author and peak performance expert.

In their words “… a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.”

Soooooo…. this is another book that was published WELL before COVID-19 changed everything. With that in mind, the book seems right on in many of the topics discussed.

Here’s a peak at the some of the technologies and ideas covered in the book.

Power of convergence

• flying cars
• autonomous cars
• hyperloop
• avatars
• quantum computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• networks
• balloons and satellites
• sensors
• robotics
• virtual and augmented reality
• 3-d printing
• blockchain
• material science and nanotechnology
• biotechnology

Rebirth of everything

• ai and retail experience
• go, go, gone are cashiers
• the robots are coming; the robots are coming
• no shopping malls
• future of education
• future of healthcare
• future of longevity
• future of insurance, finance and real estate
• future of food

The faster future

• climate change for optimists
• storage
• electric cars
• biodiversity and ecosystem services
• economic risks
• existential risks
• 5 great migrations: climate, urban, virtual, space, meta intelligence

This book is the third book in a trilogy. Abundance and Bold are the two other books worth reading in the trilogy.

The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter Diamandis gets a thumbs up!

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