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In the coming decades, planet Earth will undergo the unimaginable equivalent of twenty thousand years of progress. Next demonstrates brilliantly how we are in a position to fundamentally shape our destiny by leveraging exponential technologies to achieve our most sublime hopes. Meir Brand CEO, Google Middle East Next brilliantly illuminates the inventors and accelerating convergence of innovative technologies reshaping almost every aspect of our lives, and their implications and potential to cure the sick, feed the hungry, eradicate poverty, and heal the planet. Daniel Kraft MD, Chair for Medicine and Neuroscience, Singularity University; founder and Chair, Exponential Medicine The fascinating stories featured in Next show what the future of humanity on Earth – and maybe even other planets – might look like in the near future. The book will also give readers tremendous hope for their lives and for our future as a species. Toomas Hendrik Ilves former President of Estonia Next is a must-read book featuring game-changing innovations that are having an outsized impact on human history and are poised to transform our species from a society of takers to a society of givers. Martin Eberhard co-founder and former CEO, Tesla Motors The future is already here. Next shows that perhaps for the first time in history, humanity can now exert nearly complete control of what happens to our species and our planet. Tshaka Cunningham CSO, Polaris Genomics; Executive Director, Faith Based Genetics Research Institute People forget that the only real border that matters is the thin blue line of our atmosphere. The riveting stories in Next show readers what the future of humanity, protected by that thin blue line, might look like – coming very soon. Nicole Stott retired NASA astronaut; artist; author