James Canton (1) (1951–)
Auteur de The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
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A propos de l'auteur
James Canton is a global futurist, social scientist, and visionary business advisor. He is CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a think tank that advises Fortune 100 companies and governments on future trends, innovation, strategy, and global risk. The Economist recognized him as a afficher plus leading global futurist, and CNN named him the Digital Guru. Previously, he was an executive at Apple Computer, a founding board member of Singularity University, a digital entrepreneur, and an advisor to three White House administrations. For more information, please visit afficher moins
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Œuvres de James Canton
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years (2006) 203 exemplaires
Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World (2015) 23 exemplaires
Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004) 18 exemplaires
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 244
- Popularité
- #93,239
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 63
- Langues
- 8
And now I have to go back to my world of 2020, where I watch live 2-way TV that manipulates my brain directly through audio waves so I can put in my shift as a nano-alchemist working together with my colleague who is a an AI on creating new virtual experiences for the hordes of boomers revitalised to be in their 40s. We've got access to one of those new version of quantum computers that can bend time and access its versions from other dimensions. Later I have an appointment with my robo doctor (so much more reliable than those fleshy meatbag ones) through the Internet 4 (so excited by the coming Internet 5!). Maybe I can get him to prescribe me some of those nanobots to give me an edge at work.
Forgive the poor satire, the book does it so much better. But it might cause you to alternate between laughing and screaming.
The funny thing about this book is that it also "predicts" many things which were already a reality in 2006 when it was published as if the author was not just terrible at predictions but also hopelessly uninformed. It also predicts multiple futures. I imagine so that later he can take out that particular quote and say that he got it right. Yes, whilst also getting it completely wrong one sentence later. Seriously, this book contains amounts of bullshit visible from space.… (plus d'informations)