The Internet had a world-changing impact on markets and businesses over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. This book answers the question: 'What's next?'
As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries, the equivalent of two round-trips to the moon with a side trip to New Zealand. From refugee camps in the Congo and Syrian war zones, to visiting the world's most powerful people in business and government, Ross's travels amounted to a four-year masterclass in the changing nature of innovation.
In The Industries of the Future, Ross distils his observations on the forces that are changing the world. He highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains how countries thrive or sputter. Ross examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including robotics and artificial intelligence, the commercialization of genomics and cybercrime amongst others. He blends storytelling and economic analysis to give readers a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, now and tomorrow.
