A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the World We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050

De: Chunka Mui, Paul B. Carroll, Tim Andrews

Narrado por: Stephanie Dillard

What if, instead of trying to predict the future, we could just pick the one we want - and then invent it? Well, we can. Think of the wealth of technological resources already available to us. The computing power in that smartphone in your pocket could have guided 120 million Apollo-era spacecraft to the Moon and back. A gigabyte of memory cost $300,000 in the 1980s - today, it costs a fraction of a penny. Now, try to imagine 2050, when your computing devices will be a million times more powerful or available at one-millionth of today's prices.

In this deeply researched and compelling audiobook, the authors do the imagining for you, describing seven so-incredible-as-to-be-almost-magical capabilities that will be available by 2050 in computing, communication, information, genomics, energy, water, and transportation. You may finally get that flying car, have ample water even in a desert, and be treated for disease through microscopic robots in your bloodstream.

Drawing on their decades of experience helping major organizations formulate strategies for innovation, the authors demonstrate how to use combinations of those seven capabilities to imagine "perfect" futures, whether that means reversing climate change, resolving today's disinformation crisis, or living 20 years longer. This audiobook paints visions of how the world could - and should - look as we pass the planet on to future generations.

We can use those visions to start inventing a perfect future - today.

©2021 Chunka Mui and Paul B. Carroll (P)2021 Chunka Mui and Paul B. Carroll

We CAN create a better future. Still.

GREAT read/listen for all levels of knowledge entering these topics. Very readable. Like a fictional thriller, this is hard to set down once you get into it.

WE can do this! That is, WE can get the future right. Applying Moore's Law type trends in disciplines beyond computing, networks and data can help the reader understand that the way we designed the world to date doesn't have to be the way going forward.

This reader's perspective was changed a bit vis-a-vis the role government can play in innovation. Though some of this future will require a LOT more cooperation across governments ... particularly when it comes to the environment.