Examining human need by category - water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom - Diamandis and Kotler aim to introduce dozens of innovators making great strides in each area - Larry Page, Steven Hawking, Dean Kamen, Daniel Kahneman, Elon Musk, Bill Joy, Stewart Brand, Jeff Skoll, Ray Kurzweil, Ratan Tata, Craig Venter, among many others. This contrarian view, backed up by research, introduces the near-term future.

Em Sociedade com custo marginal zero, Jeremy Rifkin argumenta que a era do capitalismo está saindo lentamente do palco mundial. O surgimento da Internet das Coisas tem levado à ascensão de um novo sistema econômico – os bens comuns colaborativos – que está transformando nosso modo de vida.

Como a internet foi capaz de transformar tão drasticamente o modo como utilizamos nosso tempo livre? Para o guru da web Clay Shirky, a resposta está em como as novas tecnologias permitem que, com baixíssimo custo e risco, apliquemos algo que sempre tivemos: a vontade de usar nossos talentos para ...

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being. This book is about how the money system will have to change—and is already changing—to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and pract...