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1 sound file : digital |
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audio file rda |
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eAudiobook tlcgt |
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General tlctarget |
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Electronic audio file. |
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Read by Arthur Morey. |
| Summary |
The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1: Perspective. Our grandest challenge -- Building the pyramid -- Seeing the forest through the trees -- It's not as bad as you think -- pt. 2: Exponential technologies. Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button -- The singularity is nearer -- pt. 3: Building the base of the pyramid. The tools of cooperation -- Water -- Feeding nine billion -- pt. 4: The forces of abundance. The DIY innovator -- The technophilanthropists -- The rising billion -- pt. 5: Peak of the pyramid. Energy -- Education -- Health care -- Freedom -- pt. 6: Steering faster. Driving innovation and breakthroughs -- Risk and failure -- Which way next? |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Old Saybrook Tantor Media, Inc. 2012 Available via World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Technological innovations -- Forecasting. -- Sound recordings.
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Technological forecasting. -- Sound recordings.
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Technology -- Social aspects. -- Sound recordings.
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Social prediction. -- Sound recordings.
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Economic forecasting. -- Sound recordings.
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Electronic audio books.
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| Added Author |
Kotler, Steven, 1967- author.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781452627182 (electronic audio bk.) |
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