The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for the future of technology and technological convergence in our modern era.

In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.

Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful road map to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today’s legacy industries and business models? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?

Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives—transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance—taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.

As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

Peter H. Diamandis (Diamandis.com) is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of over twenty-five companies in the areas of AI, health-tech, space, venture capital, and education. He is cofounder of Singularity University and curator of Abundance360. He serves as cofounder of two $500 million-plus venture funds: BOLD Capital Partners focused on health and longevity, and Link-XPV focused on AI. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE which has launched $550 million of incentive prizes driving $10 billion in research and development. In the field of longevity, Dr. Diamandis is cofounder and chairman of Fountain Life. He has degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. His Moonshots podcast focuses on AI and other exponential technologies, routinely exceeding 1 million listeners per episode.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, the world’s leading neuroscience-based peak performance research and training organization. The author of fifteen books—including The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and Gnar Country—his work has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations, been translated into more than eighty languages, and appeared in over one hundred publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Time, and Harvard Business Review.