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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
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| Customer Rating: | 3.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9780452288669
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A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology, environment, terrorism, population, and medicine to help companies and individuals prepare for the coming complex and volatile global changes, including:
How climate change and energy trends will reshape the planet
How astounding medicine trends will enhance peoples lives
How the rise of China will bring on a new global power struggle
In the tradition of
Future Shock, Megatrends, and
The Tipping Point, Extreme Future is the essential forecasting handbook for navigating the twenty-first century.
| The Extreme Future | 2010-06-24 | 4 / 5 |
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| He offers not only the problems, but solutions. He thinks way outside of my thought process, so it was very interesting. |
| Pick up a sci-fi book instead | 2010-02-11 | 1 / 5 |
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To set your expectations of my opinion: This is the poorest piece of business literature I have read in at least a few years, if not ever.
This book provides a series of short-term to long-term predictions about the future across a variety of relevant topics (energy, peace, etc.). There are so many predictions, and so many topics, that it is hard for the reader to disagree with the author consistently because, when a shotgun approach is used for speculation, there is no room for debate.
Where this book falls tragically short is its lack of analysis. For 95% of the authors predictions, there is absolutely no analysis or rationale for the forecast. In fact, in many instances, the author uses uncited speculation in the form of unfounded matter-of-fact statements (e.g. "Japan is of course buying up land in China"). The only attempt to provide any sense of rationale to any of the author's arguments are a series of convoluded frameworks which, after using frameworks during my day-to-day job as a management consultant for the past 5 years, still make absolutely no sense to me.
Readers who are interested in speculation about the future would be much better off picking up a science-fiction book set in the not-to-distance future and using that creativity to spark their own imaginations. Science-fiction writers are generally visionaries as well; the only difference is, the reader will not have to be subjected to reading unfounded fiction presented as fact by a CEO who, for better or worse, has no more credentials on this topic than any other writer. |
| The Innovation economy is here! | 2009-09-13 | 3 / 5 |
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Gone are the days where companies could cut costs and survive. Companies who take this narrow minded approach will cease to exist in tomorrow's economy. Innovation is rapidly becoming a key strategic driver for survival, leave along competitive edge. This book clears indicates that the new "Innovation Economy" - a new convergence of economics, trade, and technology, will determine the future leadership of nations, productivity of business, and wealth of individuals.
Chapter 3 - "Finding Prosperity: The innovation economy" states that this innovation economy will represent the largest future threat or opportunity for your career or business.
I think the general trends stated in this book seem to be pretty much on target, for instance the top industries who will benefit the most will be pharma/health, energy, and manufacturing. Education is ranked # 8. Ratings may be true from a global perspective but at least for the US, as we know very well from Obama's priorities for the next 5 years, it is healthcare, energy and "education".
If you are a staunch believer in innovation and would like to know where to invest in the future, this book will serve as an interesting read and open your eyes, especially, around how seriously we need to take innovation.
Hope you enjoyed the review.
- Avi Jhangiani
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| extreme future book | 2009-06-04 | 5 / 5 |
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| This book was shipped in a timely manner, arrived quickly, and was in the condition described by the seller. |
| black swans are invisible to this guy? | 2009-01-01 | 2 / 5 |
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His equation is:
I+C+D=P2
Should be
Innovation+capitalism +democracy+socialism=Prosperity+Peace+People.
He leaves out the people...and social justice.
He call the ordinary people the "workforce" and says "democracy" is a good thing at the same time. Somewhere he has mistaken wishful thinking for scientific projections?
We call this sort of fellow a "false prophet" and a hypocrite.
If any of the good things he says can happen do,
it won't be because of people like him
who ship jobs to China.
Mostly he is just too very optimistic and pie in the sky.
Anything good we get,
we have to earn...
The author loves pretty meaningless diagrams
and never seems to have read any history. |
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