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 By John Brown

The Future is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler 

You ain’t seen nothing yet, and it’s coming faster than you can imagine. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years.

That’s the message of The Future is Faster Than you Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. 

Peter Diamandis is an engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for founding and chairing the X Prize Foundation, which holds public competitions that are intended to encourage technological development to benefit humanity. 

For example, one X Prize was for $10 million dollars and went to the first privately financed team that could build and fly a three-passenger vehicle 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks. Then there was the $10 million prize promised to the first team that could create a mobile device that can "diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board-certified physicians.” The X Prize competitions help push the envelope of science and innovation. 

Because of his work, Diamandis has the pulse on what’s coming next with technology. And he’s teamed up with Steven Kotler, an American author and journalist, to share it with us. And it will blow your mind. Because it’s not forty, fifty, or sixty years out. It’s coming within the next ten years. 

The reason why these innovations will be coming so quickly is because various cutting-edge technologies are merging and accelerating each other’s growth. Things like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, digital biology, fabrication on demand (called 3D printing), and quantum computing. And that’s going to bring huge changes in transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance.

For example, what happens when solar energy becomes virtually free? We’re not talking about the current solar cells. We’re talking about huge advances in that technology converging with new innovations with batteries. We will shift from coal and gasoline to electricity. We’ll be driving electric cars. Air pollution will plummet. And we’ll be able to provide clean water to everyone. 

What happens when computers, paired with advanced sensors, can monitor your health better than any doctor? 

What happens when farming goes vertical and people in big cities begin growing crops up the walls of buildings and in food towers?

Those are three of the dozens of innovations Diamandis and Kotler share. If you like science and technology and want to get a fascinating glimpse of what’s coming down the road, read this book. And if you listen to it on audio, you get a bonus of the authors explaining what’s new since the book was published.