The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series)

by Peter H. Diamandis

social media is making us dumber, but it’s definitely making AI smarter.

Convergence is fueling this conviction. The intersection of AI, cloud computing, quantum computing, sensors, massive data sets, biotechnology, and nanotechnology is producing a plethora of new healthcare tools.

By falling in love with industrial technology and failing to address the environmental devastation it produced, humanity has put the Earth—what Carl Sagan once called, “the only home we have ever known”—on a crash course with disaster. According to the world’s top climate scientists, we have just twelve years to fix this problem. Either limit global warming to 1.5 degrees or face catastrophic consequences.