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THE INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE
Leading innovation expert and fomer advisor of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Alec Ross explains what’s next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years—for businesses, governments, and the global community—and how we can navigate them.
While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clinton’s Senior Advisor on Innovation, he traveled to forty-one countries. He visited some of the toughest places in the world—from refugee camps of Congo to Syrian war zones. From phone-charger stands in eastern Congo to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.
There has never been a period of greater progress in the history of humanity than during the last three decades. Global poverty was cut by more than half. Life expectancies shot up. Entire new industries sprouted from the imaginations of our scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We became faster, more efficient workers. We live and work with tools and gadgets considered bare necessities that would have been unimaginable luxuries thirty years ago. Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what’s next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money, payments, and markets. And in each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world’s rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley in creating their own innovation hotspots?
Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, incorporating the insights of leaders ranging from tech moguls to defense experts. The book takes the intimidating, complex topics that many of us know to be important and boils them down into clear, plain-spoken language. This is an essential work for understanding how the world works—now and tomorrow.
In his four years with the State Department, Ross helped devise and implement digital strategy for advancing America’s diplomatic goals, working on issues ranging from Internet Freedom to disaster response to responding to regional conflicts. He deployed funds for project to empower activists in authoritarian environments and conceived a system of public diplomacy through social media that now reaches 15 million people a day.
He has been awarded many recognitions for his work, including “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy Magazine, 2012 Tribeca Film Festival’s Disruptive Innovation Award honoree, and the Department of State Distinguished Honor Award. He has over 120,000 Facebook followers and over 360,000 Twitter followers. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs and serves as an advisor to investors, corporations, and government leaders.
Alec Ross’s connections are incredible – he’s worked with tech giants (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.), global corporations, international (not just American) government leaders, and top financiers.
There has never been a period of greater progress in the history of humanity than during the last three decades. Global poverty was cut by more than half. Life expectancies shot up. Entire new industries sprouted from the imaginations of our scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We became faster, more efficient workers. We live and work with tools and gadgets considered bare necessities that would have been unimaginable luxuries thirty years ago. Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what’s next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money, payments, and markets. And in each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world’s rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley in creating their own innovation hotspots?
Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, incorporating the insights of leaders ranging from tech moguls to defense experts. The book takes the intimidating, complex topics that many of us know to be important and boils them down into clear, plain-spoken language. This is an essential work for understanding how the world works—now and tomorrow.
In his four years with the State Department, Ross helped devise and implement digital strategy for advancing America’s diplomatic goals, working on issues ranging from Internet Freedom to disaster response to responding to regional conflicts. He deployed funds for project to empower activists in authoritarian environments and conceived a system of public diplomacy through social media that now reaches 15 million people a day.
He has been awarded many recognitions for his work, including “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy Magazine, 2012 Tribeca Film Festival’s Disruptive Innovation Award honoree, and the Department of State Distinguished Honor Award. He has over 120,000 Facebook followers and over 360,000 Twitter followers. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs and serves as an advisor to investors, corporations, and government leaders.
Alec Ross’s connections are incredible – he’s worked with tech giants (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.), global corporations, international (not just American) government leaders, and top financiers.
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