The Pattern Future: Finding the World's Great Secrets and Predicting the Future Using Pattern Discovery - Softcover

Anderson, Mark R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099672544X ISBN 13: 9780996725446

Publisher: FiReBooks, 2017

Synopsis

Renowned technology and economics forecaster Mark Anderson reveals hidden patterns beneath the art and science of predicting the future. Through a series of personal vignettes, Anderson exposes a complex web of causes, influences, and effects that propel today’s world, then describes strategies that he employs to lay bare new trends, to make new discoveries in a wide variety of disciplines, and to accurately foresee future events.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Anderson is the CEO of Strategic News Service (SNS); publisher of the SNS Global Report on Technology and the Economy; CEO of the SNS Conference Corp.; chair of the Future in Review (FiRe) conference, INVNT/IP (Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of IP), and Orca Relief Citizens Alliance; a founding member of Coventry Computer; and co-founder of the Pattern Recognition Lab at UC San Diego & Irvine. He is the founder and chair of SNS Project Inkwell, creator of the Nutritional Microanalysis medical field, and chair of FiReBooks, FiReFilms, and the Carbon Trifecta and Earth Energy Monitoring System (E2MS) initiatives. With a 94.5% accuracy rate since 1995, Mark’s predictive successes include being the first to fully document the central role of stolen IP in China’s national business model, as well as predicting the Great Financial Collapse of late 2007, the contemporary outbreak of “currency wars,” the advent and success of the CarryAlong computer and Internet Assistant, and the Global Currency Crisis of late 1997. He is the only person to have publicly predicted both the Great Financial Collapse and the Oil Price Collapse, the two most important economic events of modern times. Mark is a frequent public speaker and corporate consultant and appears regularly in US and international media.

Review

"In The Pattern Future, Mark Anderson gives us a mini-biography illustrating his uncanny ability to discern patterns, whether in economics, science, education, or innovation. But Mark goes further and provides compelling examples of how the knowledge one gains from recognizing pattern shifts requires high moral courage to act on those insights, when everyone else is blind to the drastic change about to happen. The combination of understanding how to see patterns and the courage to act on their implications gives Mark his extraordinary Superpower. Quite a remarkable story!" - Larry Smarr, Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2; a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership)

"Our brains appear to be massive pattern matchers according to recent neural studies. Some brains seem to match patterns better than others, and Mark Anderson's works especially well as he explains in this wide-ranging book." - Vint Cerf, internet pioneer and VP/Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

"Mark Anderson has earned his reputation as an extraordinarily prescient predictor of the unanticipated. His focus is on patterns as they persist through time and, critically, the subtle indications that what has been an established pattern is subject to more or less radical change. He now shares his distinctive approach to reading the future from the observable past and present." - Bill Janeway, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus; and Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

"Mark's reputation as a trend predictor is well-established, and with The Pattern Future, he unveils how he does it. I found the techniques and stories to be useful for those who are anticipating and planning for the future." - Paul Daugherty, CTIO, Accenture

"In a career where I've been lucky enough to meet many of the best of the brightest, Mark is the smartest person in the world I've met who's still alive." - William Lohse, Venture Capitalist and Founder, Social Starts LP and Pivot Conference

Edition details

• Publisher: FiReBooks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 099672544X
• ISBN 13: 9780996725446
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 238