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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An interesting read, although it's somewhat dated by now. I appreciated the generally optimistic outlook on the future and innovation, but a more in-depth discussion of how to make certain future industries benefit more than just a small subset of society would have been welcome. I was also surprised artificial intelligence didn't get more space, as it's been in the pipeline for a while now. Overall, this was a short, interesting read with a positive outlook on innovation and the future. ( ) Rating this a two because even though I liked this book I don't know that I'd recommend it for the following reasons - 1) It's five years old now, and the technology review the author provides in The Industries of the Future is somewhat dated. It would be astounding if it weren't, given how rapidly technology is changing. 2) The author worked under Hillary Clinton at the State Department as a Senior Advisor for Innovation, so he's been well placed to observe and comment on advances in industries and technologies. The flip side of that though is that, at least in this book, he's provided a rose-colored view of the future through the lens of the US foreign policy establishment. 3) There's a few things I see as misses - for example, there's some fantastic work going on right now in rocketry/space industry, including advances in mini-satellites, that is nowhere to be found in this book. Also, and perhaps this is a sign of the age of the book - the term "artificial intelligence" doesn't appear once in the book even though he spends quite a bit of time on "big data" and the associated analytics, i.e. AI. Artificial Intelligence is also a big part of advances in robotics, but again, in his discussion of robots his focuses on the potential for robots in human form, and doesn't discuss AI at all. 4)His intro says that he wants to write the book that will show young people entering the job market where the opportunities will be in the next 20 years, and I think he only partially achieved that. (His discussion of cybersecurity as a rapidly growing profession is right on). no reviews | add a review
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"Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years--for businesses, governments, and the global community--and how we can navigate them. Ross highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money, payments, and markets."-- No library descriptions found. |
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