- 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
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- 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 –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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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 , 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
- construction sector innovation 205–7
- cookies 181–2
- Cooper's Law 85
- coworking office communities 208
- craftsmanship 217–18, 221
- creative society 35–6, 146, 154, 155
- creativity see innovation
- CRISPR, bacterial DNA sequences 56–8, 64, 72, 77
- crowdsourcing 191, 192, 243, 262, 268
- cryptocurrencies 184–5, 186, 187
- cultured meat 156–9
- cybercrime 114–15
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- 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 , , , 11, 28–9
- driverless vehicles 42, 203
- drones 105–6, 202, 204, 207
- dynasties, four stages of 255
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- 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. ,
- 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
- 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
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- fact-resistance –3, , , 130
- fake identities, cybercrime 114–15
- fake news, Internet providing access to 229
- famine, predictions of , , 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 –3,
- fertility rates, decline in 38, 40–1
- Festinger, Leon, When Prophecy Fails
- fish farming 153–4
- flexibility
- management 242–3
- small businesses 240–1
- FLOPS (floating operations per second) 83–4
- flying machines
- disbelief in –11
- drones 105–6
- quadcopter taxis 202
- food production 150–1, 153–4, 156–9
- fossil fuels 120–2
- foxes, data-driven people
- fuel, sources of 120–38
- fusion experiences 222–3
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- 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
- 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
- hormesis 129–30
- housing innovations 205–6, 222
- hybrid aircraft 201–2
- hybrid cars 203
- hydrogen
- hypersonic aircraft 201
- hypothesis generation, AI 94
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- 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
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- Jevon's Paradox 122, 126
- John Adams (TV serial) 255
- Judgement Day prophesies
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 , –9, 24, 33
- poverty 46–7, 144, 187
- Prechter, Robert –2, ,
- 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
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- 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
- 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 , –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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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 –4,
- 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
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- Uber 189, 191, 194, 269
- underestimation
- of future development/scientific progress –8, 27
- of long-term impact of technology 23
- of resources available 147–8
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- 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
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- 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
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- Yamanaka, Shinya, stem cell research 75
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- Ziman, John, Ziman's Law 15–16, 43, 273
- Zimov, Sergey, Pleistocene Park 65
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