Sunday, August 10, 2014

YOUR creativity, ideas, suggestions, and criticisms are desired.
1. To help design and build a fun, exciting community that empowers and develops children's creativity, self reliance and individuality.
2. To enable even a single parent with children who has little or no money to start and build their own successful business.
3. To demonstrate that mentoring people, builds a more prosperous and equitable world for all.


Early years     
    Over 30 years ago one of the children, Lee Coburn was teaching second language English to, died of cholera. This was a needless death, for her life could have been save for less than $2 worth of medicine, yet because the mother lived in extreme poverty, and had no one to help, as she was a single mother, the child died. After that tragedy, and learning from the U.N. that over 9 million innocent children die needlessly every year, due to poverty. Lee then committed the rest of his life and wealth, to creating a world that works for all children.
    Lee’s first step was to travel the world, visiting capitalist, socialist, and communist, countries. Sadly, he found the plight of children to be deteriorating, more single parent homes, more lonely, isolated, depressed and obese kids, more kids killing kids...
    On the positive side, Lee met hundreds of thoughtful caring people, whose ideas and suggestions he has accumulated. Today we call the this open search for ideas crowdsourcing.  Crowdsourcing is proving to be, a powerful tool for solving complex problems.
    This openness to thoughts, ideas, and criticisms from all people no matter their background remains a central tool for creating a world that works for all children. So dear reader, we do not ask for your money, we ask only that you share with us your creativity and brain power. What follows is a progress report, a collective work in process, which we, and the children of the world, thank all who have given so freely of their time and thought.


Studentsourcing?
    One of the ideas, that’s still in it’s infancy, is to create a student owned and run school, that is exclusively, for people who are committed to:
1. Creating a prosperous and happy world for children.
2. Working together to build, individually owned, green businesses.
3. Demonstrate that treating people, fairly and equitably, leads to great success and riches.
We assert that if this demonstration really, really works then many people will copy it and millions of children well have better lives.


    The Green Entrepreneur Development School (GEDS)  is being started in Genoa Colorado, a small town 100 miles east of Denver. With land costs in Genoa a tiny fraction of Denver, and crime is almost nonexistent it’s an ideal location.
    GEDS is a rapidly evolving, school that seeks to utilizes the power of an active, supportive community to create a positive world for children, while enabling adults, with little or no money, to build their own successful businesses as fast as possible.


Why an entrepreneur school?
    It simple, today advance technology is wiping out millions of good traditional jobs from accountants, engineers, lawyers, to zoning managers . Over 10 million college graduates are unemployed or working at low paying jobs, flipping burgers, delivering pizzas, or stocking shelves. It’s not robots, killing high paying jobs, but it’s little publicized advance in science and technology. For a quick servay see: http://jobkillers.blogspot.com/  
And for a more in-depth look at the growing challenges new technology poses check out the books in appendix 3.
    There is good news for the same technologies are creating more new lucrative business opportunities than at any other time in human history. This is because 90% of all scientists and inventors that have ever lived are alive and working. They are producing more new opportunities every 15 years than were produced in the last 100, and the last century was very inventive with TVs, computers, space travel, washing machines, airplanes, autos and much more.
    Entrepreneurs themselves are a major source of new opportunities. When the Wright brothers invented the airplane they created opportunities for airplane manufacturers like Boeing. They also created thousands of second tier opportunities. These, for the most part were low tech, like food services, airport support, travel agents and manufacturers of airplane seats etc.. It is in this second tier where historically businesses have been most profitable and have created most of the new jobs. So the more entrepreneurs there are, the more new opportunities there will be.
    Shortages, yes indeed and this is great news because history shows that shortages are opportunities for creative problem solvers. Look at the energy sector today, while doom and gloomers are crying in despair, there are over one hundred-thousand scientists and inventors working on the energy challenge. Those who find answers will win big. Already companies are earning millions, creating new jobs, building wind turbines, solar collectors, and biofuel plants.
    In a free market economy, shortages show up as higher prices. Today entrepreneurs are earning, from 100 to 1000 times more money than any other profession. This is a clear sign of a vast shortage.
    Another way successful entrepreneurs create jobs for others is by spending money. Buy a wool coat, and you create work for the coat maker, the weaver, and the sheep rancher etc.. Or when an entrepreneur banks money the banker loans it out to someone who spends it, creating more jobs. In fact, the source of all paying jobs on planet Earth is people spending money, so unless entrepreneurs burn or bury their money, every penny they earn, goes towards creating work for others.
    Thankfully there are no formal educational requirements, school dropouts like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and other entrepreneurs with even less education outnumber those with Ph.Ds.
    The best news is that female entrepreneurs have the highest success rate of any group on planet earth. The Grameen Bank and it’s offshoots have made start up loans to over one million women. Their success rate has been an amazing 97%. Many of these women had little or no formal education. This kind of success is not confined to the third world.


Maria’s Story
  At the time Lee met Maria, her life was not going very well. Her ex-husband was making no child support payments. She was working at a dead-end factory job and the factory was moving to Mexico. Maria was illiterate and an ethnic minority female, she worried that finding a new job would be difficult, or maybe impossible. This upset her, for she hated the idea of welfare, wanting very much to be a positive role model for her child.
  Lee told Maria that he would teach her how to start and build her own business. Maria was at first hesitant, not sure that it was possible, but she did agree to give it a try Lee found an opportunity for her in the media field, and provided the training, ventured capital and some marketing support to get her started. These, combined with Maria's own hard work, was all that she needed to build her own successful business.
  It took Maria seven years to become a millionaire. Another four years to make her second million and her companies are continuing to expand. Obviously, getting Maria out of poverty was good for her and her child. The real question is, “How does her success impact the world?”
  First: Maria had always been a compassionate person but when she was poor and struggling to survive, she had little time or money to help others. Now that she is rich, her love and compassion gets expressed. Poor children, the elderly, and the sick are aided because Maria has greatly increased her charitable giving.
  Second: Entrepreneurs like Maria create more new jobs than do Governments and big businesses combined. This is important because jobs are the only way out of poverty for most poor people.
  Third: Young people trapped in poverty are given new hope because Maria shows them, that crime is not the only way out of poverty, for America is still the land of opportunity!
  Fourth: The environment wins because Maria has dumped her old car and purchased a new low pollution automobile. Her new home has lots of insulation, double glazed windows, and a high efficiency furnace. Her factory has a large solar collector that provides heat and hot water.
  Fifth: The world as a whole benefits because every day Maria’s factories turn raw materials into new wealth, making the world richer. She has not become rich by taking wealth away from others. Maria has gotten rich by creating new wealth.
  Sixth: Even the government is helped because Maria is now paying substantial taxes, instead of teetering on the brink of the welfare abyss.
  Clearly, Maria’s success is helping to create a world that works.  So what did it cost to help a poor, illiterate, mother become a millionaire? Nothing! In fact it was better than that for Maria has paid back the money we loaned her, with interest. So now, the not-for-profit GEDS has more money to help others start new businesses. Maria demonstrates that for the first time in human history, we have a no cost way to reduce poverty.
Are entrepreneurs the best answer?
    We don’t know, maybe there is a better answer, but so far we haven’t found it. When Lee started working with Maria several people urged him to employ a tutor and educate her so that she could pass the GED test for a high school diploma, then go on to college.
    Teaching her all that one learns in high school would have taken at least 2 years, then 4 years of college, then assuming that she got student loans to pay for college and support her son,and herself, lets say $100,000. And further assume that she got a good job and was able to pay off $10,000 a year.  So 6 years as student, 10 years paying off student loans, so after 16 years she would be out of debt, with a net worth of zero and could then start living better.
    Maria’s new business also required a lot of penny pinching, a lot of hard work, and self sacrifice in the beginning, but by the end of the 4th year her profits had risen to over $70,000 a year, so from then on, she and her son were able to stop pinching pennies and enjoy a middle class life style.
    There were other people that thought we should give our money to the poor instead of helping Maria become successful. The problem with welfare is that it only keeps the poor alive so they can go on suffering, it doesn’t get them out of poverty.
    So we are still looking for the best way of providing for the world’s children. If you know of a more effective way to help poor children then please tell us. Our ideas are not sacred, children are.


Fundamental assertions.
1) Poverty is the lack of wealth. (Wealth is all that has monetary value, food, clothing, housing, land, information and knowledge, etc..)
2) Humans are wealth creators. (We turn clay into pottery, iron ore into autos, seeds into crops, crops into food)
3) Humans trade wealth. (the farmer trades his wheat for money, then trades the money for clothing, vehicle's, and fuel etc.)
4) Humans are wealth destroyers. (We break the dishes, wear out the cars, and eat the food.)
5) When humans create more wealth than they destroy they and the world get richer.
6) To reduce poverty we must create and distribute more wealth, and destroy less. There is no reason for poverty to exist. All that has to happen is for more people to become more efficient wealth creators and to distribute the wealth more equitably
    The keys to greater wealth creation are: resources, capital, knowledge, specialization, tools and genius. It is on the side of distribution that more work must be done. To create prosperity for more children and people GEDS has combines some old ideas in new ways creating another “ism” to go with capitalism, communism, socialism etc.. We call our new economic system Mentorism.
The old “ism’s” versus Mentorism
    In capitalism one employs workers at the lowest possible wage, works them as hard as possible, and then pockets all the profits. This as so many have observed is unfair, a selfish, greedy and a win, lose game.
    Communist and socialist countries strive for more equitable wealth distribution. Their failure to eliminate poverty has two causes. When the government takes most of the profits through high taxation as in socialism, or ownership of all production as in communism, then there is little incentive for people like Maria to do the hard work and make the sacrifices needed to build successful wealth creating businesses. The deeper problems is the inefficiency of most bureaucracies. The bureaucrats whose payroll absorb much of the money meant for the poor. Bureaucracies world wide stifle innovation with rules, edicts, and mountains of red tape. Not to mention the historic fact that with so much power and money being controlled by bureaucrats, not all of whom are honest, there develops a high rate of corruption. Another thing that saps peoples motivation, is the growing number of able bodied people who choose to live on government handouts rather than do their share of the wealth creating work.


Mentorism
Helping others escape poverty is one of the main pathway to riches in a mentoring economy. It works this way.
    Mary, a GEDS student, starts a pie making business. She makes high quality fruit, meat, and vegetable pies. Her pie business grows and reaches a point where she is unable to do all of the work. Instead of hiring a worker, she offers to help Patty another GEDS student take over the meat pie part of the business. Patty agrees to pay Mary franchising fee of 3% of her gross sales. Mary teaches Patty what she knows about meat pie making. Mary lets Patty uses the mixers and ovens in the evening after Mary quits for the day, Patty for her part pays part of the leases on the equipment and also contributes her share of the building rent and utilities. This lowers Mary’s overhead and makes her fruit pie business more profitable. So mentoring Patty is a win for Mary.
   Patty is also a winner. She has a job that pays her enough to cover food and rent for herself and two children, with a little bit left over to invest. Her investment money is enough to pay her share of the leases on the ovens, mixers and building space that she shares with Mary. This means that taking over the meat pie business is very safe for even if she sold very few meat pies, she would not go bankrupt. Because Patty is only making meat pies she is able to focus more time on perfecting them. Specializing also allows more time for creativity and experimentation. Taking over the low risk meat pie business and being mentored by Mary is a win for Patty.
    The customers are also winners because Patty cares more about their satisfaction than typical employees do. Also her specialization brings greater knowledge and higher skill  to her meat pie making.
    Both Mary and Patty have many more opportunities to make money mentoring others and helping them become prosperous entrepreneurs.


Safety net
    We must increasingly provide our own safety nets. For as new intelligent self-educating machines wipe out an ever increasing numbers of middle class jobs. Because the middle class provides over 70% of tax revenue


governments ability to provided safety nets will continue to shrink because the middle class provides over 70% of tax revenues.
    One answer is for a small group to become skilled at low cost living, working together resources can be stretch to the max. Also skill in low cost living means that one has more money to invest in ones business so success comes faster.
     There is another time when one might want to become less visible. That is if there is a large amount of unemployment and more cuts in government support, in this case it is possible for there to be violent social unrest, if this should happen, it’s best to be cut one’s living costs and help others. That way one will be seen as a helper and not a rich exploiter.
    Sometimes business disasters happen, hurricanes tornados, fires etc.. If one loses everything then skill in low cost living can enable one to start over, and bounce back quickly.


Empowering Children Entrepreneurs
    Most entrepreneurs are not geniuses, they are just ordinary people who expect the world to hold many different pathways to success. Whereas public schools, kill creativity and problem solving by insisting on one right answer. And McDonalds has one right way to make a big mac. Entrepreneurs have from experience learned that there are a vast number of ways to succeed.
    So the primary goal of our childrens learning program is to create a large number of choices. Each student is free to learn or not learn anything they choose. Many things they can learn carry an earnings amount, like geometry which has 7 levels of proficiency, and the child receives $100 as they master each level. Students are encouraged to work in small teams, of 4 to 7 students, teaching each other, if they choose to be in a team helping each other they will earn additional money. This turns learning into an entrepreneurial adventure with many pathway to success.
    Students finding their own answers, the library is one pathway, the internet another, sharing information with each other yet another, and if they want to, they can employ teachers, paying them from their earnings. What young people can do, on their own, is truly amazing, the whole in the wall video is an awesome example.


IQ1000
     Crowdsourcing has brought us our most powerful skill set.  Without crowdsourcing we could not have learned that neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and sociology research has produced tools that can vastly increase an individual's success.
    In fact IQ1000 has proven so powerful, that we will not keep any student who does not master the 6 tools. It has proven to have a greater positive impact then providing money or training.    
    In order to help other non GEDS students create a world that works we have placed IQ1000 into the public domain. To make most effective use of these tools we recommend that people form study groups of 4 or 5 people because working together greatly accelerates progress.


Changing the world
    Even though changing the world has generally  proven difficult  if not impossible, we assert that there is one way that might work. Suppose that almost all of the people who enroll in GEDS graduate owning a million dollar business. This at a time when technology is wiping out ever more traditional jobs, and leaving millions of college graduates unemployed or flipping burgers. This vast difference in success rates will cause people around the world to see the power of mentorism, than the world will shift and become more equitable, then more children will be living in abundance rather than poverty.
Your thoughts, ideas and suggestions.
Please share with us and others, that together we may create a world that works for children, adults, and the planet. Thanks for your interest and if you think mentorism is a good idea, then please share it.


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Appendix 1 - A philosopher muses
    I can not speak of the future, only of today. No big loss for contemplating today is strange and scary enough. Because there is growing evidence that we are in the third a major paradigm shift. The first was when humanity moved from being nomadic hunter gathers and became farmers. The second was the industrial revolution when machines augmented human muscle power. Today we are moving rapidly into the cognitive age where machines are augmenting and sometimes surpassing human intellectual power.
    Every day thousand of scientific and academic papers are published in many different languages. Humanity is drowning in knowledge. Only intelligent self-educating machines can understand, evaluate and keep up this the ever growing flood. Today it is not only humans that are making new scientific discoveries but cognitive machines like   Eureqa a program that makes basic scientific discoveries. The goal of the program is to discover a mathematical formulas that describes the real world. Using genetic algorithms it is able to examine billions of possible answer every minute and so quickly discover new formula. The amazing thing is that sometimes when the problems very complex, the answers it finds can be beyond human understanding. Yet when we test the answers they work.
     There are several hundred cognitive programs in use today and thousands are being developed. Some futurists predict that in the next 10 to 15 years, these smart machines will take over 70 to 80% of our traditional jobs. Today it is the entrepreneur who makes use of these machines that makes the most money and has the safest occupation, at least for now.
     Now is the time to think about who we are. Because the current evidence point to cognitive machines and robots taking over most of our intellectual work, how do we create an identity for ourselves without these jobs?
Appendix 2 - Taking Action
    Spread the word because there are people facing an increasingly bleak future, this is especially true of single parents as food stamp (SNAP) and other government programs are today being cut back. But please do not push people into our program as it will ONLY work for those who enjoy going all out turning challenges into fun and exciting businesses.
    Yes entrepreneur often make piles of money, but pursuing money does not work. The successful entrepreneurs we know and work with, all say that it’s the game they love not the money. Few people believe them, but CAUTION for our experience is that those who chase money are the one’s most likely to fail. Whether one is in GEDS or going it alone, the first step is to find a fun and interesting business to do, and then you can let the money take care of itself. This is why our write ups downplay the money and focus on creating a fun and exciting world for ourselves and the children.


New venture
    In the past we only worked with individuals, not groups. So there is much work and learning to put the Green Entrepreneur Development School together and make it succeed. Again this adventure is not for most people, only those who can look beyond their personal interests and commit time and effort to creating a world that works for all.
    We think of ourselves as members of the entrepreneurial Olympics, we are a group of people that like pushing the envelop and playing hard. We enthusiastically welcome all others who would like to share our way of life.


Defining ourselves
     All students make and keep the following promises.


1) I promise to for the next 4 years, to put all of my time, energy, resources and creativity into building my own green business.


2) I promise to put the well being and happiness of children first and to work together to create the best possible community to raise children in.


3) I promise to master and to fully utilize the tools and skills from IQ1000+


4) I promise to support the social and business success of other students.
5) I promise to help rid the school of anyone who is not keeping their promises.
    These promises are meant to exclude all who do not care about children and who do not  find becoming an entrepreneur a fun, exciting and fulfilling game. This school is not for people who aren't willing, to put all of their earnings back into their business, postponing, fancy food, fashionable clothing, hot cars, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, pets, etc. until they are rich and successful. This is not a moral position, it is a practical reality that the more money you put back into your business the faster it grows.
    This high level of commitment increases the success rate because all students find more opportunities than they can exploit. If one student start a successful printing company, it will create entrepreneurial opportunities for graphic artists, machinery repair, and marketing etc.. Then these companies will themselves create even more opportunities. So being in a community of highly motivated people makes it much easier to succeed. This is why students promise to expel anyone who is not keeping their promises.
Caution:
    GEDS is not for most people. Please do not push people into the school. Those people who find becoming an entrepreneur a fun, exciting and fulfilling game will recognize the opportunity. those who don’t, don’t belong. We estimate that it is only three in a thousand who are willing to make an all out commitment for the children of the world.


Costs
    If someone wants a beautiful campus we recommend Colorado College at $50,000 per semester. On the other hand our tuition is $10 per week, this is ¼ of CU instate tuition. The big difference is that students graduate from GEDS owning a business instead of having a large student loan to pay off. The Amber Scholarship Fund can provide scholarships for some single parents.  We have set-up a co-op child care system. We have set-up a co-op kitchen as a way to keep food costs as low as possible.
    Note: we are not a charity there are no freebies. We do have a good work study program and one of our graduate students has started a temp employment agency. If you have no money you are welcome, but plan on quickly getting a part time job, there are plenty low level jobs in Limon.
Learn by doing
   With thousands of new opportunities to choose from each student must start their own business immediately following an initial 20 days of intensive training. It is a lot more fun and exciting to learn accounting, in your own business, then to spend hours doing boring exercises for some imaginary XYZ corporation. The same is true for learning product development, marketing, and logistics etc.. The real world not the classroom is where the action is.
    Each student has an experienced entrepreneur as their mentor. The mentor’s income is based on the students success this in addition to their caring nature assures each student of the active support they need to succeed. Mentors help students with venture capital, marketing, and business strategy.


Joining GEDS
   If you’re interested in building your own business and helping create GEDS then contact us and enter into a dialogue. Or you can drop everything and show up on our doorstep, with your kids if you have any. Then together all of us at GEDS will support you in creating a prosperous magical life, for you and your children.
Appendix 3 Related Books
1. Brynjolfsson & McAfee - The Second Machine Age A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.
In The Second Machine Age MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.
Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds—from lawyers to truck drivers—will be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.
Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.
2. Jeremy Rifkin - the End of Work An analysis of the potentially catastrophic implications of the growing worldwide unemployment crisis
3. Race Against the Machine by Brynjolfsson & McAfee - How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
4. The Second Economy, by W Brian Arthur - Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution.
5.  Jobocalypse : The End of Human Jobs and How Robots will Replace Them by Ben Way a leading futurologist, technologist, inventor, and entrepreneur. With over twenty years of experience in technology and innovation. The book leaves out the impact of AI on jobs.
6. Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: … how to survive the economic collapse and be happy by Federico Pistono  an award-winning journalist, social entrepreneur, scientific educator, activist, and aspiring filmmaker.


8. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology is transforming our culture.
9. The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen -  What to Do by Daniel Berleant wanted to understand what the world will be like some day. That's why he wrote this book. A professional scientist educated at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, Berleant understands, in a way everyone can relate to, the importance of both understanding the future and knowing what we can do about it. This is his first book aimed at a popular audience.
10. Robot Futures by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. They will be fully connected to the digital world, far better at carrying out online tasks than we are. In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings. Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of "gaze tracking"; robot-enabled multimodal, multi-continental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. Nourbakhsh follows each glimpse into the robotic future with an examination of the underlying technology and an exploration of the social consequences of the scenario.
Each chapter describes a form of technological empowerment -- in some cases, empowerment run amok, with corporations and institutions amassing even more power and influence and individuals becoming unconstrained by social accountability. (Imagine the hotheaded discourse of the Internet taking physical form.) Nourbakhsh also offers a counter-vision: a robotics designed to create civic and community empowerment. His book helps us understand why that is the robot future we should try to bring about.
11. The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Humanity by Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
12. Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil Examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
13. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines
    Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smartphone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.
   Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.
    The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness.
    In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways. Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity.
14. Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ by Richard Dooling Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
    If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are texting a person or an especially ingenious chatterbot program designed to simulate intelligent human conversation?
    According to Richard Dooling in Rapture for the Geeks—maybe not that long. It took humans millions of years to develop opposable thumbs (which we now use to build computers), but computers go from megabytes to gigabytes in five years; from the invention of the PC to the Internet in less than fifteen. At the accelerating rate of technological development, AI should surpass IQ in the next seven to thirty-seven years (depending on who you ask). We are sluggish biological sorcerers, but we’ve managed to create whiz-bang machines that are evolving much faster than we are.
    In this fascinating, entertaining, and illuminating book, Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our role in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the dust. As Dooling writes, comparing human evolution to technological evolution is “worse than apples and oranges: It’s appliances versus orangutans.” Is the era of Singularity, when machines outthink humans, almost upon us? Will we be enslaved by our supercomputer overlords, as many a sci-fi writer has wondered? Or will humans live lives of leisure with computers doing all the heavy lifting?
    With antic wit, fearless prescience, and common sense, Dooling provocatively examines nothing less than what it means to be human in what he playfully calls the age of b.s. (before Singularity)—and what life will be like when we are no longer alone with Mother Nature at Darwin’s card table. Are computers thinking and feeling if they can mimic human speech and emotions? Does processing capability equal consciousness? What happens to our quaint beliefs about God when we’re all worshiping technology? What if the human compulsion to create ever more capable machines ultimately leads to our own extinction? Will human ingenuity and faith ultimately prevail over our technological obsessions? Dooling hopes so, and his cautionary glimpses into the future are the best medicine to restore our humanity.
15. More Than Human: The Promise of Biological Enhancement by Ramez Naam What if you could be smarter, stronger, and have a better memory just by taking a pill?
What if we could alter our genes to cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's?
What if we could halt or even reverse the human aging process?
What if we could communicate with each other simply by thinking about it?
    These questions were once the stuff of science fiction. Today, advances in biotechnology have shown that they're plausible, even likely to be accomplished in the near future. In labs around the world, researchers looking for ways to help the sick and injured have stumbled onto techniques that enhance healthy animals--making them stronger, faster, smarter, and longer-lived--in some cases, even connecting their minds to robots and computers across the Internet.
    Now science is on the verge of applying this knowledge to healthy men and women, allowing us to alter humanity in ways we'd previously only dreamed possible. The same research that could cure Alzheimer's is leading to drugs and genetic techniques that could boost human intelligence. The techniques being developed to stave off heart disease and cancer have the potential to slow or even reverse human aging. And brain implants that restore motion to the paralyzed and sight to the blind are already allowing a small set of patients to control robots and computers simply by thinking about it.
    Not everyone welcomes this scientific progress. Cries of "against nature" arise from skeptics even as scientists break new ground at an astounding pace. Across the political spectrum, the debate roils: Should we embrace the power to alter our minds and bodies, or should we restrict it?
    Distilling the most radical accomplishments being made in labs worldwide, including gene therapy, genetic engineering, stem cell research, life extension, brain-computer interfaces, and cloning, More Than Human offers an exciting tour of the impact biotechnology will have on our lives. Throughout this remarkable trip, author Ramez Naam shares an impassioned vision for the future with revealing insight into the ethical dilemmas posed by twenty-first-century science.
    "A terrific survey of current work and future possibilities in gene therapy, neurotechnology and other fields." - Los Angeles Times
16. Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization by K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy and environment.
    Already, scientists have constructed prototypes for circuit boards built of millions of precisely arranged atoms. The advent of this kind of atomic precision promises to change the way we make things—cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. It allows us to imagine a world where solar arrays cost no more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and laptops cost about the same.
    A provocative tour of cutting edge science and its implications by the field’s founder and master, Radical Abundance offers a mind-expanding vision of a world hurtling toward an unexpected future.
17. Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology by Eric Drexler This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter.  Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future
18. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, and Computation by K. Eric Drexler "Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering, chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understand machines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: power and strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantum uncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century of engineering." - Marvin Minsky
    MIT Science magazine calls Eric Drexler "Mr. Nanotechnology." For years, Drexler has stirred controversy by declaring that molecular nanotechnology will bring a sweeping technological revolution - delivering tremendous advances in miniaturization, materials, computers, and manufacturing of all kinds. Now, he's written a detailed, top-to-bottom analysis of molecular machinery - how to design it, how to analyze it, and how to build it. Nanosystems is the first scientifically detailed description of developments that will revolutionize most of the industrial processes and products currently in use.
    This groundbreaking work draws on physics and chemistry to establish basic concepts and analytical tools. The book then describes nanomechanical components, devices, and systems, including parallel computers able to execute 1020 instructions per second and desktop molecular manufacturing systems able to make such products. Via chemical and biochemical techniques, proximal probe instruments, and software for computer-aided molecular design, the book charts a path from present laboratory capabilities to advanced molecular manufacturing. Bringing together physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and computer science, Nanosystems provides an indispensable introduction to the emerging field of molecular nanotechnology.
19. Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution - Authors Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit A comprehensive, easy-to-understand handbook that explains what nanotechnology is and how it will revolutionize life in the future. The world's leading expert in the field, Drexler also examines the spectacular accomplishments that might result from a breakthrough: elimination of disease and pollution. 20 illustrations.
20. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential futurist. In How to Create a Mind, he presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in the human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it functions and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain works, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems. Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mindis sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil’s previous classics.
21. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We  Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.
    Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?
    The key to answering these questions, and many more, is big data. “Big data” refers to our burgeoning ability to crunch vast collections of information, analyze it instantly, and draw sometimes profoundly surprising conclusions from it. This emerging science can translate myriad phenomena—from the price of airline tickets to the text of millions of books—into searchable form, and uses our increasing computing power to unearth epiphanies that we never could have seen before. A revolution on par with the Internet or perhaps even the printing press, big data will change the way we think about business, health, politics, education, and innovation in the years to come. It also poses fresh threats, from the inevitable end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven’t even done yet, based on big data’s ability to predict our future behavior.
    In this brilliantly clear, often surprising work, two leading experts explain what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards.


22. The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet  by Ramez Naam As the world teeters on the brink of dramatic, perhaps catastrophic, transformation due to climate change, it is hard to find good news anywhere. Luckily, business and technology ethicist Naam knows where to look. The increasingly noteworthy author of More Than Human (2005) and a debut sf novel, Nexus (2013), Naam says there is much to decry as he cites all the usual suspects, from rising sea levels to devastating droughts. But there is also much to celebrate, from humankind’s proven ability to conquer adversity through innovation to the limitless availability of renewable resources such as solar and wind power. By providing a detailed, statistically rich historical background on many of the detrimental practices and attitudes that have brought humanity to the nail-biting precipice that may await a century from now, Naam strengthens his soberly confident, if not cautiously optimistic, predictions for how humans can walk it back from the edge of disaster. Though some of his arguments may evoke controversy, Naam nonetheless presents a balanced and ecumenical approach through cogent, well-researched positions. --Carol Haggas
23. Abundance by Diamandis & Kotler Explores the coming era of abundance which is replacing eons of scarcity, a powerful antidote to today’s malaise and pessimism. “At a moment when our world faces multiple crises and is awash in pessimism, Abundance redirects the conversation, spotlighting scientific innovators working to improve people's lives  around the world. The result is more than a portrait of brilliant minds - it's a reminder of the infinite possibilities for doing good when we tap into our own empathy and wisdom.”—Arianna Huffington, CEO, Huffington Post
“This brilliant must-read book provides the key to the coming era of abundance replacing eons of scarcity, a powerful antidote to today’s malaise and pessimism.”—Ray Kurzweil
24. Crowdsourcing Jeff Howe "Crowdsourcing" is how the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the responsibility of a specialized few.
25. Free - The Future of a Radical Price Chris Anderson makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival.
26. How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Tapscott & Williams
Explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Websites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises.
27. Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin why a few people truly excel, not hard work or natural talent but a highly specific kind of effort-"deliberate practice"
28. The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredth Essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders.
29. The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor This book shows that our commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy.
30. The Rational Optimist by Ridley. Science journalist Ridley believes there is a reason to be optimistic about the human race, and he defies the unprecedented economic pessimism he observes.
31. The Last Firewall  by William Hertling -- "Awesome near-term science fiction." - Brad Feld, Foundry Group managing director
"An insightful and adrenaline-inducing tale of what humanity could become and the machines we could spawn." - Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezburger
"A fun read and tantalizing study of the future of technology: both inviting and alarming." - Harper Reed, former CTO of Obama for America, Threadless
"A fascinating and prescient take on what the world will look like once computers become smarter than people. Highly recommended." - Mat Ellis, Founder & CEO Cloudability
"A phenomenal ride through a post-scarcity world where humans are caught between rogue AIs. If you like having your mind blown, read this book!" - Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
"The Last Firewall is like William Gibson had a baby with Tom Clancy and let Walter Jon Williams teach it karate. Superbly done." - Jake F. Simons, author of Wingman and Train Wreck. --  In the year 2035, robots, artificial intelligences, and neural implants have become commonplace. The Institute for Ethics keeps the peace, using social reputation to ensure that robots and humans don't harm society or each other. But a powerful AI named Adam has found a way around the restrictions. Catherine Matthews, nineteen years old, has a unique gift: the ability to manipulate the net with her neural implant. Yanked out of her perfectly ordinary life, Catherine becomes the last firewall standing between Adam and his quest for world domination.
32. The Silent Intelligence - The Internet of Things by Daniel Kellmereit -- The Silent Intelligence is a book about the Internet of Things phenomenon. In it we talk about the history, trends, technology ecosystem and the future of the Internet of Things, Connected Cities, Connected Homes, Connected Health and Connected Cars. We also discuss the most promising areas for entrepreneurs and venture investors. We share exciting stories and unique opinions of over 30 industry veterans, experts and visionaries from Google, Ericcson, AT&T, Qualcomm, Accenture, SAP, MIT, EcoLife Foundation and many others. We called this book The Silent Intelligence because most of the activity and growth in the space has so far been happening outside of mainstream visibility. We hope that our book will help executives, entrepreneurs, investors and everybody else better understand the opportunities and challenges of the Internet of Things and will get them as excited about the upcoming possibilities as we are.
33. The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen - and What to Do by Daniel Berleant -- Daniel Berleant wanted to understand what the world will be like some day. That's why he wrote this book. A professional scientist educated at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, Berleant understands, in a way everyone can relate to, the importance of both understanding the future and knowing what we can do about it. This is his first book aimed at a popular audience.


34. The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan  -- From the very first words, "The Transhumanist Wager" makes it clear that technology is not our enemy, but our savior. With incredible achievements being realized in science and medicine on an almost daily basis, life extension becomes ever more a part of our reality...and our species is fast becoming the first to CHOOSE its own evolution. It is true that many fear the idea of replacing decaying organs with functional ones. Some welcome death and seem to wish to thrust their love of it upon the rest of us. But what of the children? Should conjoined twins be forced to suffer when their separate minds could be placed into separate bodies? What about the children born into war zones where they have been mutilated beyond any ability to function in society? Must they be forced to crawl for a lifetime...deaf, sightless, unable to walk or provide for their own care ...? All when technology offers relief?? The transhumanist wager is more than a wager that suggests we may all live longer lives...it is a wager that we can live better, more productive lives. Lives where we might ultimately colonize the oceans, Mars or other environments with bodies which have been modified to ADAPT to our new environs. In the final analysis, isn't Adapting what humans do best? I urge everyone to read this incredible book. No, I'm not the author, the publisher or a person who is being paid to render an opinion. I am a human being who believes that we have a choice : get busy living, or get busy dying.
35. Facing the Intelligence Explosion by Luke Muehlhauser -- Sometime this century, machines will surpass human levels of intelligence and ability. This event—the “intelligence explosion”—will be the most important event in our history, and navigating it wisely will be the most important thing we can ever do. Luminaries from Alan Turing and I. J. Good to Bill Joy and Stephen Hawking have warned us about this. Why do I think Hawking and company are right, and what can we do about it? Facing the Intelligence Explosion is my attempt to answer these questions.

36. Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing by John E. Kelly III -- We are entering a new frontier in the evolution of computing: the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM’s Watson on the television quiz show Jeopardy! signaled the advent of this new era, revealing how scientists and engineers at IBM and elsewhere are pushing the boundaries of science and technology to create machines that sense, learn, reason, and interact with people in new ways. In Smart Machines, John E. Kelly III, director of IBM Research, and Steve Hamm, a writer at IBM and a former business and technology journalist, introduce the fascinating world of “cognitive systems” to general audiences and provide a window into the future of computing. Cognitive systems promise to penetrate complexity and assist people and organizations in better decision making. They can help doctors better diagnose and treat patients, augment the ways we see, anticipate major weather events, and contribute to smarter urban planning. Kelly and Hamm’s comprehensive perspective describes this technology inside and out, and their extensive knowledge illuminates the difficulty of harnessing and understanding “big data,” one of the major computing challenges facing technicians in the coming decades. Absorbing and impassioned, their book will inspire governments, academics, and the global tech industry to work together to power this exciting wave in innovation.
37. The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy  by Alex Zhavoronkov -- Over the past 20 years, the biomedical research community has been delivering hundreds of breakthroughs expected to extend human lifespan beyond thresholds imaginable today. However, much of this research has not yet been adopted into clinical practice, nor has it been widely publicized. Biomedicine will transform our society forever by allowing people to live longer and to continue working and contributing financially to the economy longer, rather than entering into retirement and draining the economy through pensions and senior healthcare. Old age will become a concept of the past, breakthroughs in regenerative medicine will continue, and an unprecedented boom to the global economy, with an influx of older able-bodied workers and consumers, will be a reality. A leading expert in aging research, author Alex Zhavoronkov provides a helicopter view on the progress science has already made, from repairing tissue damage to growing functional organs from a single cell, and illuminates the possibilities that the scientific and medical community will soon make into realities. The Ageless Generation is an engaging work that causes us to rethink our ideas of age and ability in the modern world.

38. The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

by Eric Schmidt -- In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. With their combined knowledge and experiences, the authors are uniquely positioned to take on some of the toughest questions about our future: Who will be more powerful in the future, the citizen or the state? Will technology make terrorism easier or harder to carry out? What is the relationship between privacy and security, and how much will we have to give up to be part of the new digital age? In this groundbreaking book, Schmidt and Cohen combine observation and insight to outline the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. At once pragmatic and inspirational, this is a forward-thinking account of where our world is headed and what this means for people, states and businesses. With the confidence and clarity of visionaries, Schmidt and Cohen illustrate just how much we have to look forward to—and beware of—as the greatest information and technology revolution in human history continues to evolve. On individual, community and state levels, across every geographical and socioeconomic spectrum, they reveal the dramatic developments—good and bad—that will transform both our everyday lives and our understanding of self and society, as technology advances and our virtual identities become more and more fundamentally real. As Schmidt and Cohen’s nuanced vision of the near future unfolds, an urban professional takes his driverless car to work, attends meetings via hologram and dispenses housekeeping robots by voice; a Congolese fisherwoman uses her smart phone to monitor market demand and coordinate sales (saving on costly refrigeration and preventing overfishing); the potential arises for “virtual statehood” and “Internet asylum” to liberate political dissidents and oppressed minorities, but also for tech-savvy autocracies (and perhaps democracies) to exploit their citizens’ mobile devices for ever more ubiquitous surveillance. Along the way, we meet a cadre of international figures—including Julian Assange—who explain their own visions of our technology-saturated future. Inspiring, provocative and absorbing, The New Digital Age is a brilliant analysis of how our hyper-connected world will soon look, from two of our most prescient and informed public thinkers.
Part 3 looks at the bigger picture. Individual chapters concentrate upon emerging materials, how the industry is scaling up production, and where the battle lines are being drawn amongst the complex legal issues. Readers are introduced to the highly disruptive nature of distributed manufacturing, demonstrating many of the global impacts and developments that will transform entire economies in the next ten years. Far from being a dry technical manual, this book addresses three key issues that are important to anybody interested in this rapidly evolving field. What are 3D printers all about? How can they be used to make money? What does the immediate future hold for this amazing technology? Humorous, insightful and inspiring in equal measure, and yet priced at a small fraction of its competitors
40. Our Uncertain Future: When Digital … David Mills -- In Our Uncertain Future, David Mills, Ph.D. presents an extensively researched and well-documented impartial analysis focusing on the interplay of three controversial behemoths shaping our global future. He cuts through the hype and sensationalism surrounding the meteoric rise of technology, the slow yet inevitable impact of global warming, and the desired but dreaded onslaught of automation. In a series of brief subsections, Dr. Mills presents a straightforward thought provoking review of the past and present condition of technology, culture, economy, and the environment which he uses as a springboard to dissect the most prevalent theories on our future advancements and possible pending doom. Complete with detailed graphs accompanied by plain spoken explanations, Dr. Mills calls upon all of us to engage in critical reasoning to separate fact from fiction, to apply past knowledge to current dilemmas, and to comprehend the necessity of preparing an adaptable response to unknown developments, crisis, and exponential advancement.


41. Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent … › George M. Church -- Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom-produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependence. Building a house would entail no more work than planting a seed in the ground. These scenarios may seem far-fetched, but pioneering geneticist George Church and science writer Ed Regis show that synthetic biology is bringing us ever closer to making such visions a reality. In Regenesis, Church and Regis explore the possibilities—and perils—of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms. Until now, nature has been the exclusive arbiter of life, death, and evolution; with synthetic biology, we now have the potential to write our own biological future. Indeed, as Church and Regis show, it even enables us to revisit crucial points in the evolution of life and, through synthetic biological techniques, choose different paths from those nature originally took. Such exploits will involve far more than just microbial tinkering. Full-blown genomic engineering will make possible incredible feats, from resurrecting woolly mammoths and other extinct organisms to creating mirror life forms with a molecular structure the opposite of our own. These technologies—far from the out-of-control nightmare depicted in science fiction—have the power to improve human and animal health, increase our intelligence, enhance our memory, and even extend our lifespan.
A breathtaking look at the potential of this world-changing technology, Regenesis is nothing less than a guide to the future of life.


42. Pardon the Disruption: The Future You Never Saw Coming by Clayton R. Rawlings, and James Randall Smith, and Rob Bencini. Pardon The Disruption high-lights the exponential advances in technology that have disrupted the legal system and the economy over time – but those changes will pale in comparison to what is about to occur! The book is written in two parts: the first part discusses the effect – past and projected future – on the legal system; the second part, on the economy. The two come together in a conclusive scenario that changes everything!


The conclusions reached by this trio of authors are not only possible or plausible, but likely to occur in the future. These inveterate trend watchers see a confluence of trends that will lead to legal, economic and governance changes that will have dramatic effects on our lives.


Using both real life and engaging fictional stories to illustrate their compelling points, this trio of authors not only reports on major trends occurring in the legal and economic realms, but uniquely projects where these exponential advances of technology will take us.


43. Our Uncertain Future: When Digital Evolution, Global Warming and Automation Converge David M Mills Ph.D. Many different predictions about our future: Some experts predict an incredible future propelled by digital technology, others predict destruction due to climate change, others predict automation will cause massive unemployment, others speak of advantages or dangers of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, genetic engineering. But there can be only one future.
To take a new look at our future, the findings to date on climate change, automation, economics, history of technology, and future digital and other technological changes have been thoroughly reviewed, and a synthesis offered that includes all these forces in a single future.


The result is a prediction of a future in which the precise details of our technological progress cannot be determined in advance, but a future which is predicted to unfold with ever more increasing rates of change, and a future that is incredible in its overall possibilities.
The future, though fraught with danger, can be surprisingly bright - if we can avoid those actions which would impede our progress while making good use of the opportunities embedded in the challenges to come
44. As the future Catches You by Juan Enriquez. You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dramatically demonstrating the cascading impact of the genetic, digital, and knowledge revolutions on all our lives.


Genetics will be the dominant language of this century. Those who can “speak it” will acquire direct and deliberate control over all forms of life. But most countries and individuals remain illiterate in what is rapidly becoming the greatest single driver of the global economy. The choice is simple: Either learn to surf new and powerful waves of change—or get crushed trying to stop them. The future is catching us all. Let it catch you with your eyes wide open.
45. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence.
In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.
Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?
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