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Hardcover Lessons from the Future: Making Sense of a Blurred World Book

ISBN: 1841120707

ISBN13: 9781841120706

Lessons from the Future: Making Sense of a Blurred World

"This unique and well-tested voice consistently arrives in the future much earlier than anyone else." Nicholas Negroponte, Co-Founder of MIT's Media Lab "Stan Davis is a master at linking abstract... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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This collection of essays links futurist Stan Davis' previous works with some of his newer ideas about change and commerce. Believing that his ideas (Future Wealth, Blur, Future Perfect, 2020 Vision) have held up, he expands upon them to explain the philosophy he thinks underlies the next 20 years (or "the second half") of the information revolution. He delves into the next era he anticipates, one of even greater consequence - the Bio Economy. He explains not only the rise of biotech, but also the biological or networked economy, where everything is connected to everyone all the time. Moving from theoretical to practical, he advises judging your company's worth by its predicted rate of growth and change, not by traditional measurements. Then, Davis speculates about the more distant future, post 2050, when cloning, stem-cell research and such transcend theory and join the chaos of our everyday lives. If the future makes you gasp, we [...] say read on.
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