Alec Ross is one of America's leading experts on innovation. He served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and serves as an advisor to investors, corporations, and government leaders. Ross lives in Baltimore with his wife and their three young children. He is the author of The Industries of the Future.
"The Industries of the Future is an engaging, clear-eyed look at
the benefits and challenges of the coming wave of global
innovation. Alec Ross, with his years of passionate work in the
public and private sectors, is uniquely positioned to understand
and explain where we're coming from and where we're going."
--Arianna Huffington
"A brilliant, captivating description of the profound changes that
will be ushered in by advances in robotics, big data, and genomics
- and of the implications of those developments for employment,
wealth distribution, and global trade. Alec Ross combines an
extraordinary understanding of future trends with an equally
extraordinary ability to describe those trends and explain what
they mean for the world in the decades ahead."
--General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus, Chairman, KKR Global Institute;
former Commander of the Surge in Iraq and Director of the CIA
"A fascinating vision of the future of industry. The Industries of
the Future reads like a portable TED conference at which you have
been seated next to the smartest guy in the room. The book is
filled with glimpses of cutting-edge biotech research, statecraft,
and entrepreneurship. Ross writes engagingly, and the book should
be compelling whether you follow these fields closely or you still
think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company."
--Forbes
"A lucid and informed guide, even on the most technical
issues."
--Financial Times
"A rigorous and revealing exploration of the industries that will
drive the next 20 years of change to our economies and
societies."
--Blogging on Business
"A riveting and mind-bending book. If you want to know how to
survive and thrive in the fast-paced world of today and how to
anticipate the opportunities of tomorrow's information age as well
as how to solve big mysteries, this is a good place to start."
--New York Journal of Books
"A very readable discussion of what the future might look like....
This book will have a large audience among general readers of
business and technology titles and should also appeal to high
school and college students, as well as anyone trying to prepare
for the economy of the future."
--Library Journal
"A wide-ranging and smoothly written prospectus on the near future
of innovation. It's a whirlwind tour, incisively covering
economics, politics, cyberwarfare, genomics, and the complexities
of Big Data--among many other things--in language for the layperson
interested in what tomorrow could bring."
--Booklist
"Asks big questions to help prepare us for the inevitable, and is
an important read for everyone from businesspeople to parents to
teachers."
--TechRepublic
"Discerning insights on approaching changes to our economic and
social landscapes and solid advice on how we should navigate
them."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Excellent for those who are curious about what may happen in the
future based on today's innovations."
--Sandbox Advisors
"How can we prepare our children--and ourselves--to succeed in a
world of robotics, globalization, and digitally driven markets? In
this valuable book, Alec Ross analyzes what it will take to survive
and even thrive. The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows
how it can be exciting rather than frightening."
--Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators
"In a world growing more chaotic, Alec Ross is one of those very
rare people who can see patterns in the chaos and guidance for the
road forward. He has an unusual diversity of expertise that allows
him to apply multiple lenses to the world's challenges and dream up
the kind of innovative solutions that are changing the world."
--Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and author of The New Digital Age
"It will likely be one of 2016's most talked about releases, and I
predict will take its place alongside other classic
tech-and-society books, like Tim Wu's Master Switch and Jonathan
Zittrain's Future of the Internet. It's that good. His writing
reveals not just where industries are heading, but where entire
societies may end up as a result. This is important reading. Ross
takes on an enormous challenge of making sense of how new
technology is changing the world, and does so incredibly well, by
any standard."
--Medium
"Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and
informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting
the ways we live.... This is an essential book for understanding
how the world works--now and tomorrow--and a must-read for
businesspeople in every sector, from every country."
--Stevo's Book Review on the Internet
"Ross expertly weaves stories from his travels into his projections
for the future of innovation.... Ross's book gives a thorough
overview of the exciting developments ahead in healthcare,
financial services, and technology. For anyone interested in a
glimpse of the future, it's a must-read."
--Opportunity Lives
"Ross offers us an articulate, accessible and engaging blueprint
for the prosperity of people everywhere.... Whether you are a
business executive considering new investments and navigating
emerging markets, or an advocate for human rights issues, this book
is your guide to the geopolitical, cultural and technological
contexts that will impact your work."
--Global Daily
"The next 20 years are going to be even faster-moving and more
transformative than the 20 we just lived through. Predicting
exactly what is going to happen is impossible. But thinking
systematically and strategically, as Alec Ross does here, about
robotics, genomics, and the codification of everything is
absolutely critical. Anyone who wants to understand the key forces
that are shaping our economic, political, and social futures will
benefit hugely from Ross's insights."
--Reid Hoffman, Founder & Chairman, LinkedIn
"This astute and enlightening book is generous with insight about
what the future holds and how best to prepare for it."
--Publishers Weekly
"This book is a must read for the rising generation and their
concerned parents and educators. Alec Ross brings a far-reaching
perspective to bear in illustrating the opportunities to be seized
in our changing world--across sectors and the globe--and the kind
of preparation that will be important to make the most of
them."
--Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach For America and CEO of Teach For
All
"This book is a worthy addition to the near-future canon.... Ross
writes well on what he knows and, like an expensive consultant, he
knows a lot about a lot."
--Mob76 Outlook
"Well worth reading.... Mr. Ross does a good job of describing the
advantages and disadvantages of the third wave, which is just
beginning."
--Washington Times
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