Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what’s next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them.
While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.
Alec Ross traveled the world with the remit of cataloging the best examples of innovation the human race has to offer. At the same time it has also left him with a concern that the rate of change could leave many behind.
But the people who have the most to lose from those changes are often the ones who get the least warning. That, says Ross, was his motivation for writing The Industries of the Future, which looks at six of the biggest waves of change about to hit the world.
The book will walk you through several subjects and fields. Ross breezes through various fields, from cyber-security to financial technology via big data, robotics and genomics –highlighting the potential for disruption they all bring. In contrast to others who focus on one topic, he often takes a more measured, realistic approach towards the effects they’ll have.
In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what changes are coming in the next ten years, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries succeed or fail. He highlights the specific fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics, cyber-security, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on markets.
In this book The industries of the future, Ross tries to answer toughest questions like how will we adapt to the changing nature of work? How can the world’s rising nations create their own innovation hotspots like Silicon Valley? And what can today’s parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow?
The Industries of the Future very nicely blends economic analysis, and insights from leaders from tech to defense and several other fields and lets you know how global sweeping trends are shaping the present and future. This is an essential book for understanding how the world works—now and tomorrow—and a must-read for business people in every sector, from every country.
“A fascinating vision of the future of industry. The Industries of the Future reads like a portable TED conference at which you have been seated next to the smartest guy in the room. The book is filled with glimpses of cutting-edge biotech research, statecraft, and entrepreneurship. Ross writes engagingly, and the book should be compelling whether you follow these fields closely or you still think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company.”
—Forbes
“How can we prepare our children—and ourselves—to succeed in a world of robotics, globalization, and digitally driven markets? In this valuable book, Alec Ross analyzes what it will take to survive and even thrive. The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening.”
—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators
While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.
Alec Ross traveled the world with the remit of cataloging the best examples of innovation the human race has to offer. At the same time it has also left him with a concern that the rate of change could leave many behind.
But the people who have the most to lose from those changes are often the ones who get the least warning. That, says Ross, was his motivation for writing The Industries of the Future, which looks at six of the biggest waves of change about to hit the world.
The book will walk you through several subjects and fields. Ross breezes through various fields, from cyber-security to financial technology via big data, robotics and genomics –highlighting the potential for disruption they all bring. In contrast to others who focus on one topic, he often takes a more measured, realistic approach towards the effects they’ll have.
In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what changes are coming in the next ten years, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries succeed or fail. He highlights the specific fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics, cyber-security, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on markets.
In this book The industries of the future, Ross tries to answer toughest questions like how will we adapt to the changing nature of work? How can the world’s rising nations create their own innovation hotspots like Silicon Valley? And what can today’s parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow?
The Industries of the Future very nicely blends economic analysis, and insights from leaders from tech to defense and several other fields and lets you know how global sweeping trends are shaping the present and future. This is an essential book for understanding how the world works—now and tomorrow—and a must-read for business people in every sector, from every country.
“A fascinating vision of the future of industry. The Industries of the Future reads like a portable TED conference at which you have been seated next to the smartest guy in the room. The book is filled with glimpses of cutting-edge biotech research, statecraft, and entrepreneurship. Ross writes engagingly, and the book should be compelling whether you follow these fields closely or you still think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company.”
—Forbes
“How can we prepare our children—and ourselves—to succeed in a world of robotics, globalization, and digitally driven markets? In this valuable book, Alec Ross analyzes what it will take to survive and even thrive. The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening.”
—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators
