The Industries of the Future

By: Alec Ross

Narrated by: Alec Ross

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years - for businesses, governments, and the global community - and how we can navigate them.

While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clinton's senior advisor on innovation, he traveled to 41 countries. He visited some of the toughest places in the world - from refugee camps of Congo to Syrian war zones. From phone-charger stands in Eastern Congo to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.

Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what's next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next 10 years, including cybercrime and cybersecurity; the commercialization of genomics; the next step for big data; and the coming impact of digital technology on money, payments, and markets. And in each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world's rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley in creating their own innovation hotspots?

Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, incorporating the insights of leaders ranging from tech moguls to defense experts. The Industries of the Future takes the intimidating, complex topics that many of us know to be important and boils them down into clear, plain-spoken language. This is an essential work for understanding how the world works - now and tomorrow - and a must-listen for businesspeople in every sector, from every country.

©2016 Alec Ross (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

be prepared ready or not it's going to happen ok

I'm 75 years old, and I thought it was breathtaking in terms of the world my grandchildren will live in. I think at least portions of it should be read by everyone interested in the future

Interesting, stimulating, questionable

In some respects, the real-world application of new technologies holds promise for the developing world. On the other hand, the starry-eyed promises of technology offer nothing, really, for the very real-world problems we face of hunger, poverty and perpetual war. The narration of the book is, at times, almost painful to listen to. The author should have brought in a narrator. Over half the book is monotone ending to sentences.

Question in India..

I am from India and the question is ..which part of India did you find "knee deep faeces" that you were walking in? I feel it was a very wrong picture to paint about India.

Very good

The parts of the book on nation states are very interesting and informative. Don't give up reading if you can't find direct advice.
There are few individuals with writers experience.

Very insightful

The book open up your mind for a new world that you may not know it is coming.

Very easy to listen to.

Excellent book

Very thought provoking and informative. The author did an excellent job presenting the material in a meaningful way.

Distopian future based on our absurd present

very interesting account of everything that al gores internet brought with it, without much to say of the alta vistas, pets.com, napsters, Boston chicken, marthas curtains or all the Wall Street corruption that made hundreds of companies for the robbed Pension funds and individual investors over the past two decades...

Great Cliff notes to areas to watch

This book covers a wide variety of topics very quickly and goes over a lot of key areas to pay attention to. I enjoyed it and learned a lot from it.

A must to prepare for the future

Very interesting highlight on the future. Read it and you will start to understand what will be the life of your kids

Excellent, insightful and thought-provoking book

Does a fantastic job covering topics ranging from technology and economy through policy making and geopolitics. Loved it!