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Title Abundance : the future is better than you think / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Imprint New York, NY : Free Press, 2012

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  303.4 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Free Press export edition
Descript xi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our grandest challenge -- Building the pyramid -- Seeing the forest through the trees -- It's not as bad as you think -- Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button -- The singularity is nearer -- The tools of cooperation -- Water -- Feeding nine billion -- The DIY innovator -- The technophilanthropists -- The rising billion -- Energy -- Education -- Health care -- Freedom -- Driving innovation and breakthroughs -- Risk and failure -- Which way next?
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
Subject Framtidsstudier
Teknikutveckling -- sociala aspekter
Technological innovations -- Forecasting
Technological forecasting
Technology -- Social aspects
Technological forecasting
Technological innovations -- Forecasting
Technology -- Social aspects
Classmark 303.49
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Alt Auth Diamandis, Peter H
Kotler, Steven, 1967-
ISBN/ISSN 9781451695762
1451695764
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