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Bestselling author's new book explains why the use of natural resources, already in decline in the U.S., will eventually plummet worldwide owing to the twin forces of technology and capitalism with profound consequences for mankind.

Will we be able to feed the world in the 21st century? Absolutely.
Can we stop global warming? Yes

If the 21st century's greatest challenges won't be about resource scarcity, what will they be? In addition to climate disruption, the great challenge of the future will be dealing with the people whose resources, including their skills and labor, become less valuable as technology and capitalism race ahead.

Will dematerialization spread to many more countries? Yes, and it will spread quickly, even in the developing world.

Why is the pace at which businesses are creating new factories and purchasing more equipment so sluggish? At least in part because companies are now able to get so much more out of their existing machines and buildings that they don't need to keep buying new ones at the same pace.

Will the price of oil rebound? No

Will industries continue to be dominated by a few "superstar companies? Yes.

Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. McAfee's blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati).

Andrew received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

In 2018 McAfee is already scheduled to speak in Vienna, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Iceland, Switzerland (Davos), Paris (twice), London (June), and Helsinki. In 2017 he spoke in Davos, Cambridge, Paris, Oxford, Nice, London, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, and Abu Dhabi.