The Great Questions of Tomorrow

The Ideas That Will Remake the World

De: David Rothkopf

Narrado por: David Rothkopf

Duración: 3 h y 17 m

Resumen del Editor

A unique tour around the world in search of the great thinkers of our time and their next big ideas.

With the world at the threshold of profound changes, the questions become: Where are the philosophers? Where are the great thinkers of today? Where is the next Jefferson, Curie, or Mandela? Which technologies and changes in the nature of life will they harness, embrace, or be inspired by? As the world's center of gravity has shifted over the centuries from Europe and then to the US, so, too, has the center of intellectual gravity. With that center shifting to Asia and also to the emerging world, will those places produce the transformational thinkers of the 21st century?

Embarking on an around-the-world search, David Rothkopf strives to answer these questions, uncovering what the next big ideas are and where they're emerging. Who are the people behind the ideas, and how they will be colored by their places and cultures of origin? Many of these ideas will be sought from unexpected markets - the way mobile money is being pioneered in Tanzania and Kenya, for example, or the way that access to the Internet is being explored or treated as a basic human right in Costa Rica, Estonia, and Finland. Along the way, Rothkopf highlights key areas in which transformational thinking will be needed - core notions such as democracy and government, war and peace, money and markets, human rights and philosophy, and work and identity. Through fascinating and thought-provoking stories, Rothkopf ultimately reveals ideas that are being debated now - ones that will produce incredible breakthroughs in the years ahead.

©2017 David Rothkopf (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

simple but important observations

this book is fairly short, but can lead to profound discussions of the future of society and government with respect to the changes in human interaction due to technology.

None of the big ideas in this book will be surprising to anyone with a good understanding of technology and data science, but it should be eye-opening to those in public policy, management, etc

Tepid futurism

With nothing to surprise or excite, this one's not worth the time to listen. Rothkopf's analysis is so conventional and conservative that it is almost certain to fall badly short as unknown and unpredicted changes emerge.