INDEX

  • 3D computer chips 17–18
  • 3D printing 151–2
    • artificial tissue 75–6
    • buildings 206–7
    • do-it-yourself (DIY) culture 221
    • replicators 194–5
  • 5G 85–6
  •  
  • as-a-service movement 88, 191, 215
  • absolute poverty 144
  • achievement organisations 237–8, 239, 262, 265–6
  • aircraft 201–3
    • invention of, scepticism about 9–11
  • algorithm-based management 246–8
  • Amara's Law 23
  • Amazon 91–2, 180–1
  • ambient user experiences 88, 113–14
  • anonymisation 189
  • aquaculture 153–4
  • architectural design 205
  • artificial intelligence (AI) 87, 89–95
    • controlling robots with 104
    • and economic growth 42–3
    • and security 118, 208
    • trinity with big data and IoT 100–1, 102–3
  • augmented reality (AR) 88, 111–13, 114
    • construction sector 207
    • and e-shopping 181
    • and geosocialisation 179
  • automated guided vehicles (AGVs) 104
  • autonomous cars 149–50, 152–3, 200, 201
  •  
  • backsourcing 198, 228
  • basic income 269–70
  • battery performance 86
  • Baumol's cost disease 257, 258–9, 260
  • Beckerman, W., availability of metals 147–9
  • Bellabeat, smart jewellery 77
  • Bell's law, computer paradigm shifts 86–8
  • Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox 7
  • bespoke media 229–30
  • big data 87, 99–103, 181
  • BiModal Glideway, transport 204
  • biohacking 69, 77–8
  • biotechnology 53–79
  • Bitcoin 186
  • blockchain 184–8, 192, 262
  • book writing in the future 81–3
  • Booker, Christopher, Scared to Death 29
  • Brand, Stewart, Whole Earth Discipline 61
  • brands 189
  • Bregman, Rutger, Utopia for Realists 270
  • Bricker, Darrell, Empty Planet 40
  • bright environmentalism 162, 175, 275
  • Buckminster Fuller, R., Critical Path 15
  • bureaucracy 258, 260
  •  
  • cancer treatment 70–4
  • carbon dioxide
    • concentrations/emissions 126, 163–4, 168–9
    • direct air capture (DAC) technology 170–1
    • reducing, international agreements 171
  • carbon to hydrogen shift (Marchetti's Law) 124–6
  • Carlson, Rob, The Carlson Curve 19–20
  • Cas9 enzyme 56–8
  • centralisation vs decentralisation 261–3
  • centres of excellence 210–11
  • change management 242–3
  • chess programs 9, 18, 42, 91
  • Christensen, Lars Seier 213, 214, 215
  • Church, George, DNA synthesis 58–9, 64
  • cities
    • of the future 208
    • micromobility 204
    • transport sharing 199–200
  • city states 13–14, 36–7, 267
  • client-server computing 87, 265
  • cloning 64, 66–7, 68
  • cloud computing 87, 88–9
  • co-creation 222
  • cobots 104–5
  • cohousing 208
  • collaborative filtering 180, 189
  • Collier, Paul, The Bottom Billion 50, 51
  • ‘coloured’ money 186
  • compression 149–50, 155
  • computer games 216–17
  • computer memory, price drop 86
  • conformist organisations 236–7, 239
  •  
  • DAC (direct air capture) technology 170
  • DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations) 182–4, 195, 262
  • ‘dapps’ (decentralised applications) 185–6
  • dark environmentalism 162, 171, 175
  • data 99–103
  • decadence 255–6
  • decentralised market economies 261–3, 265, 266
  • Deep Learning, software systems 90
  • delegation 243–4
  • demographics
  • desalination 155–6
  • designer children 69
  • deuterium and nuclear fusion 132, 133, 134, 135
  • Deutsch, David, The Beginning of Infinity 22, 142
  • diabetes treatment 75
  • diagnosis of diseases 67, 77, 94
  • digitalisation 31, 154–5, 156, 276
  • discovery-based learning 232, 233
  • DNA decoding 19–20, 54–6, 59, 76
  • do-it-yourself (DIY) cultures 221–2
  • doomsday predictions 4, 6, 8, 11, 28–9
  • driverless vehicles 42, 203
  • drones 105–6, 202, 204, 207
  • dynasties, four stages of 255
  •  
  • e-sport 216–17
  • economic growth
    • and a more peaceful world 49–51
    • developing countries 51–2
    • increased by AI 41–2
    • and the sharing economy 193–4
  • education 25, 231–3
  • Ehrlich, Paul R. 4, 5
  • elderly people, increase in 27, 44
  • electric cars 86, 199, 203
    • ‘inductive charging’ of 203
  • Elias, Norbert, The Civilizing Process 50
  • Elliot Wave Theory, Prechter 2
  • energy reserves, growth of 122–8
  • entrepreneurship 221
  • environment
    • global warming 163–72
    • Kuznets curve, wealth improving 161–2
    • plant growth, increase in 172
  • evolutionary organisations 238–40, 276
  • experience economy 214–18
  • exponential organisations (ExOs) 194–5
  • extinct species, recreation of 60–5
  • extinction of species 61–2
  •  
  • fact-resistance 2–3, 6, 7, 130
  • fake identities, cybercrime 114–15
  • fake news, Internet providing access to 229
  • famine, predictions of 5, 8, 37, 140
  • farming
    • compression in 150–1
    • fish farming 153–4
    • GM crops 57–8
    • meat, cultured 156–9
    • use of IoT 99
    • wheat prices 143–4
  • ‘feeler’ personality 2–3, 7
  • fertility rates, decline in 38, 40–1
  • Festinger, Leon, When Prophecy Fails 6
  • fish farming 153–4
  • flexibility
    • management 242–3
    • small businesses 240–1
  • FLOPS (floating operations per second) 83–4
  • flying machines
    • disbelief in 9–11
    • drones 105–6
    • quadcopter taxis 202
  • food production 150–1, 153–4, 156–9
  • fossil fuels 120–2
  • foxes, data-driven people 7
  • fuel, sources of 120–38
  • fusion experiences 222–3
  •  
  • gamification 231–2, 233
  • gas reserves 123–4
  • GDP per capita, growth of 43
  • Gene Machine, Rothberg 54–5
  • gene mapping 19–20, 54–6, 59, 76
  • genetic modification
    • animals and plants 59–60, 64
    • GM crops 57–8
    • humans 66–9
  • geosocialisation 178–9
  • gig economy 226, 227–8
  • Gilder's Law 84
  • Gilmore, J.H., The Experience Economy 217
  • global nomads 209–10
  • global warming 163–72
  • Goodman, Marc, cybercrime 115, 117
  • Google 91, 101–2, 108, 110
  • Gore, Al, An Inconvenient Truth 172
  • government-as-a-platform model 268–9
  • GPS 85–6, 102, 150, 179, 186, 203
  • granularity, products and services 276
  • graphene 160–1
  • greenhouse gases 165–6, 168, 169, 170
  •  
  • hacking 117–18
    • biohacking 69, 77–8
  • Haidt, Jonathan, moral instincts 253–4
  • Hawkins, Jeff, On Intelligence 90
  • health issues 69–70
    • cancer treatment 70–4
    • diagnosis and biohacking 77–8
    • ‘hormesis’ 129–30
    • lifestyle medication 78–9
    • stem cell research 74–6
  • hedgehogs, fact-resistant people 7
  • hormesis 129–30
  • housing innovations 205–6, 222
  • hybrid aircraft 201–2
  • hybrid cars 203
  • hydrogen
  • hypersonic aircraft 201
  • hypothesis generation, AI 94
  •  
  • Ibbitson, John, Empty Planet 40
  • ICOs (initial coin offerings) 186–8
  • immigration 263–4
  • immunotherapy 71–2
  • impulsive organisations 235–6, 239, 266
  • inclusion 245
  • income distribution 46–9
  • inequality 47–8, 49
  • inertial fusion 135
  • influencer marketing 182
  • information sharing 116, 241–2
  • innovation
    • acceleration of 13–14
    • hyperexponential process 21–6
    • increasing IQ 24–5
    • most important resource 141–2
    • scepticism about 11–13
  • intelligence
    • amplification (IA) 95
    • artificial (AI) 89–95
    • increase in average 24–5
  •  
  • Jevon's Paradox 122, 126
  • John Adams (TV serial) 255
  • Judgement Day prophesies 6
  •  
  • Kaku, Michio, The Physics of the Future 38, 41
  • Karpman drama triangle 250–2, 254, 256
  • Khaldun, Ibn, Muqaddimah 255–6, 258–9
  • knowledge
    • hyperexponential growth of 14–21
    • personal knowledge management (PKM) 241–2
    • state vs society 264–5
  • Koomey's Law 84
  • Kryder's Law 84
  • Kurzweil, Ray 19, 84
  •  
  • labour market 223–8, 275–6
  • Laloux, Frederic, Reinventing Organizations 235–6, 238–40
    • five organisational types 239
  • LED lights, Haitz's Law 141
  • LiDAR sensors 104, 107
  • life expectancy 69–70, 73–4
  • lifestyle medication 78–9
  • lifestyle sector, evolving areas 223
  • light unit, decline in price (Haitz's Law) 141
  • Limits to Growth, The (Meadows, Dennis L. et. al) 140, 147, 148, 160
  • lithium and nuclear fusion 132, 137
  •  
  • Mackay, Charles, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 29
  • magnetic fusion technology 134–5
  • maker movements 221–4
  • malaria 66
  • management, new styles of 235–48
  • Marchetti's Law 124–5, 126, 133
  • marketing 182
  • Marshall, Alfred, economist 16
  • Maslow's hierarchy of needs 219–20, 222, 275–6
  • master-slave computing 87, 265
  • materials, discovery of new 160–1
  • meat production, non-animal 156–9
  • medical advances 70–9
  • megafauna, extinction of 61–2, 145
  • meta-organisation 244–5
  • metals in Earth's crust 147–8
  • method management 257–8
  • micromobility 204
  • microwork 227
  • migration 263–4, 267, 270–1
  • Milanković Cycles 164, 165
  • mobile societies 209–11
  • molten salt reactor (MSR) 131
  • money, digital 184–5, 186, 187–8
  • monogenic disorders, curing 57
  • Moore's law 17–18, 84
  • moral instincts 253–4
    • and increasing decadence 255–6
    • welfare societies and norm degeneration 254–5
  • Moravec's Paradox, robotics 107
  • mosquitoes 66
  • multiple identities 230
  • Musk, Elon, Hyperloop concept 202
  •  
  • natural resources see resources
  • network effects 185, 194, 210
  • network management 246
  • networking, geosocial 178–9
  • Neven's Law 108–9
  • Newcomb, Simon 10, 12
  • Nielsen's Law 84
  • nomadlist.com 209
  • nootropic drugs 78–9
  • Nordhaus, William, light units (lumens) 141
  • Nordic Eye 77, 95, 98, 103, 187, 191, 226
  • norm degeneration 253–6
  • North, Richard, Scared to Death 29
  • Nozick, Robert, State, Anarchy, and Utopia 271
  • nuclear fusion 132–8
  • nuclear power 128–31
  •  
  • ocean currents, periodic shifts in 165
  • office communities 208
  • officeless work 226–7
  • oil reserves 123–4, 148
  • online competitions 231–2, 233
  • online shopping 179–82
  • open digital learning/online courses 231–2
  • openness (of borders) 263–4
  • organisational types, technology stimulating 235–48, 276
  • over-institutionalisation 252–3
  •  
  • Paddock, William and Paul, Famine 1975 139–40
  • panics 28–9, 123, 175
  • peace vs war 49–51
  • peer-to-peer networks 191–2
  • pessimism 27–8, 90
  • Peto's Paradox 73
  • Piketty, Thomas, Capital in the Twenty-First Century 47–9
  • Pine, B.J., The Experience Economy 217
  • Pinker, Steven, 50, 90
  • pluralist organisations 238, 266
  • political implications of future technologies 249–71
  • polygenic scores 55–6
  • population growth 4, 8–9, 24, 33
    • slowdown in 37–41
  • poverty 46–7, 144, 187
  • Prechter, Robert 1–2, 4, 5
  • prestige, gaining 218–19
  • product promotion 182
  • productivity growth 30, 31
    • lack of in public services 257–8
  • property ownership 187
  • prosperity
    • and cleaner environment 161–2
    • continuing growth in 41–4
    • and population decline 38–41
  • public sector
    • centralisation vs decentralisation 261–3
    • government as a platform 268–9
    • information problem 264–7
    • method-driven and hierarchical (conformist) 256–61
  •  
  • quadcopters 105–6, 202–3
  • quantum computing 108–11, 274
  •  
  • radio frequency (Cooper's Law) 85
  • radioactivity 129, 136–7
  • rating economy 188–9, 190, 262
  • raw materials 140, 142, 143
  • real prices, decline in 142–4
  • real-time feedback/tracking of public services 269
  • recycling 152, 155
  • religious doomsday cults 6
  • remote control 88, 105, 107–8
  • renewable energy forms, growth of 126–8
  • replicators 194–5
  • resources
    • availability of 147–8
    • decline in real prices of 142–4
    • depletion/scarcity fears 5, 7–8, 140
    • efficiency of, factors increasing 148–56
    • innovation and creativity ensuring plentiful 141–6
    • sustainability discourse 145–7
  • retail sector 179–82
    • augmented reality 112
    • big data 102
    • ‘brand-free’ products 189
    • use of RFID 98
  • Ridley, Matt, The Rational Optimist 142
  • road capacity, increase in 149–50
  • robots 103–7, 150
  • Roman Empire 266–7
  • Roslin, Hans et. al. Factfulness 26–8
  • Rothberg, Jonathan, Gene Machine 55
  • rural areas, depopulation of 45
  •  
  • safety issues
    • driverless vehicles 203
    • nuclear power 128–9, 130
  • Say's Law (supply creates demand) 214
  • scientific activity, exponential increase in 15–16, 20–1
  • ‘sea-steading’ 211
  • security issues
    • cyber security 118
    • due to information sharing 116
    • smart buildings 208
  • selective breeding 63–4
  • self-diagnosis 77
  • self-realisation 219–20, 221, 222
  • sensors, IoT and robots 96, 98, 104, 106
  • service economy 215
  • sharing economy 152–3, 155, 191–4, 199–200
  • Simon, Julian, The Ultimate Resource 142, 144
  • smart buildings 207–8
  • smart contracts 185–6
  • smartphones
    • and public services 268–9
    • as remote controls 88, 107–8
    • virtualisation 151
  • social capital, sharing economy increasing level of 193
  • social media
    • do-it-yourself (DIY) cultures 221
    • multiple identities 230
    • security issues 114–15
    • talents spotted on 25, 190
  • solar cells/panels/power 122, 127, 128, 206
  • solar cycles 165
  • space travel 201
  • species
    • de-extinction of 60–1, 64–5, 69, 174
    • deliberately eliminating 65–6
    • extinction of 61–2, 173–4
    • genetically engineering new 60
  • stack overflow ratings 189
  • stalker economy 115–16
  • stem cell research 74–5
  • stock market forecasts 2
  • substitution technologies 153–4, 155
  • Sundararajan, Arun, The Sharing Economy 193
  • sunspots 165
  • supersonic aircraft 201
  • surveillance society 116
  • sustainability discourse 145–7
  • Swanson's Law, solar panels 122
  • synthetisation 148–9, 155
  •  
  • Taleb, Nassim, Skin in the Game 265
  • Taleb's Law 265–6
  • talent, social media discovering 25
  • taxation, effect of excessive 258–60
  • teleoperation and telepresence, robot control 105
  • telephony advances 85
  • test tube children 67
  • ‘thinker’ personality 3–4, 7
  • thorium, nuclear power 130–1
  • tourism 112, 211
  • trademarks 189
  • transport 198–204
  • travel 198–9, 211
  • triple helix 210–11
  • triple product, nuclear fusion 134
  • tritium and nuclear fusion 132–3, 134, 135, 137
  • trust and the sharing economy 193
  •  
  • Uber 189, 191, 194, 269
  • underestimation
    • of future development/scientific progress 7–8, 27
    • of long-term impact of technology 23
    • of resources available 147–8
  •  
  • vaccination 27
  • value-based public management 270–1
  • Venter, Craig, A Life Decoded 53–4
  • violence and wars
    • decline in over the ages 49–50
    • inhibiting growth 51
    • Karpman drama triangle 250–2
  •  
  • Wade, Nicholas, Before the Dawn 54–5
  • waste
    • from nuclear power plants 130–1
    • recycling 152
  • water cleansing innovation 155
  • water shortage solutions 155–6
  • wearables 77
  • welfare societies/state 253
    • increasing inefficiency of 258–61
    • major problems of 269–70
    • and norm degeneration 254–5
    • smart openness 263–4
  • the West, growth and innovation 34–7
  • wind power 121, 126–8, 137–8
  •  
  • Yamanaka, Shinya, stem cell research 75
  •  
  • Ziman, John, Ziman's Law 15–16, 43, 273
  • Zimov, Sergey, Pleistocene Park 65
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