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A Brief History of the Future

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In Next, Avi Jorisch takes readers around the world to meet the innovators whose work is poised to transform the human story. Hunger, pollution, and climate change put humanity at serious risk – but, as Jorisch shows, a wave of new technologies offers a real chance to change course.

Through thirteen game-changing innovations, the book tells the stories of inventors 3D-printing tools in zero gravity, researchers creating meat in the lab, scientists saving lives by editing faulty genes, and more. Each of these ventures is already leaving its mark on history. Inspiring and hopeful, Next is a guide to a better future that is already being built.

Avi Jorisch is a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and bestselling author of Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World, which has been translated into over thirty languages. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Binghamton University and a master’s degree in Islamic history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied Arabic and Islamic philosophy at the American University in Cairo and al-Azhar University. He has lectured around the world, and his articles have appeared in influential outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Forbes, and Al-Arabiya.net. He has also appeared on CNN, CSPAN, Fox News, and MSNBC. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Young Presidents’ Organization.
BindingPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Pages264
Published2022
ISBN-139789657023754
Dimensions15 × 22 cm
Weight0.37 kg

“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 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

“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

“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 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

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