How a broad range of new immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality - and why you must act and adapt
Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionize our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history, who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision. It explains why we as business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, educators, lawmakers, investors or users and all responsible citizens must act now to influence and help oversee the future of a technological world. Quantum computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, decentralization, virtual and augmented reality, and permanent connectivity are just a few of the technologies and trends considered, but the book delves much deeper, too. You'll find a thorough analysis of energy and medical technologies, as well as cogent predictions for how new tech will redefine your work, your money, your entertainment, your transportation and your home and cities, and what you need to know to harness and prosper from these technologies.
Authors Daniel Doll-Steinberg and Stuart Leaf draw on their decades of building and implementing disruptive technologies, investing and deploying funds, and advising business leaders, governments and supranational bodies on change management, the future of work, innovation and disruption, education and the economy to consider how every area of our lives, society, economy and government will likely witness incredible changes in the coming decade. When we look just a bit further into the future, we can see that the task facing us is to completely reinvent life as we know it - work, resources, war, and even humanity itself will undergo redefinition, thanks to these new and emerging tools. In Unsupervised, you'll consider what these redefinitions might look like, and how we as individuals, and part of society, can prevent powerful new technologies from falling into the wrong hands or be built to harm us.
- Get a primer on the foundational technologies that are reshaping business, pleasure, and life as we know it
- Learn about the lesser known, yet astonishing, technologies set to revolutionize medicine, agriculture, and beyond
- Consider the potential impact of new tech across business sectors - and what it means for you
- Gain the knowledge and inspiration you need to harness your own power and push the future in the direction of good for all of us not just the few
- Explore the best ways to invest in the changes these technologies of the future will bring about
This is a remarkably thorough and comprehensive look at the future of technology and everything it touches. Shining a light on many unsupervised technologies and their unsupervised oligarchy of masters.
Table of Contents
Foreword viii
Preface x
Introduction xv
Suggested Reading xxx
Part I Important Technologies You Cannot Ignore 1
Chapter 1 Foundational Technologies 7
Chapter 2 Enabling Technology 43
Chapter 3 Consumer-Facing Hardware Technologies 77
Chapter 4 Important Uses of Technologies You Cannot Ignore 97
Part II The Impact and Implications on Humanity of Disruptive Technologies 137
Chapter 5 Reinventing the Economy 141
Chapter 6 Reinventing Work 171
Chapter 7 Reinventing Education 197
Chapter 8 Reinventing Information and Communication 207
Chapter 9 Reinventing Control 227
Chapter 10 Reinventing the Planet 247
Chapter 11 Reinventing Humans and Humanity 263
Chapter 12 Technology Reinventing Itself 279
Chapter 13 Key Influencers on Frontier Technologies 295
Part III Final Thoughts 327
Chapter 14 Ethics and Policy 329
Chapter 15 Conclusion 339
Chapter 16 Final Word 351
About the Authors 355
Index 357
