Back in January, I hosted Mick Ebeling at Google LA for an Authors@Google talk. Mick is an award-winning film/television/commercial producer, philanthropist, idea-generator, and author. He discussed the maker movement and his new book Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done. It was inspirational and really made me wonder how I too can make a similar big impact.
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I heard about Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis on some blog post and thought it was an intriguing idea. I am typically optimistic and think there has been so much progress made in civilization, and I was curious to hear why the authors of this book were optimistic too. The book was effectively a long catalog of many of the exciting technologies people have recently launched or are actively working towards across many fields such as robotics and medicine. It was nice from the one hand to hear about the many big problems facing the world and the different initiatives people are taking to fix them. But I found the book to be too descriptive of the current solutions and approaches, and so I think it will be quite dated in a few years. I would have preferred more detail on the actual problems because those are the entry points to real opportunities. Even though I expected a bit more depth to the various arguments and less cataloging of examples, it was still an interesting read. |
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