Written by Paul G Roberts
The internet no longer belongs to the young hacker with an evil idea. The digital revolution now belongs to the world, and it’s attracting super smart entrepreneurs from every field imaginable (including advertising) all hell-bent on changing it.
This book is the third and final edition of the trilogy NOW, NEXT, and HOW series, has been created as books, e-books, and Apps, and distributed on all major e-book platforms and App stores globally. Where NOW was a Business Survival Guide and NEXT An Armchair Guide to the Future, HOW is a practical hands on guide to Secrets of the New Economy, secrets that have been used and applied by the Author. It is designed to help one both understand and thrive in this, “the Ideas economy”.
This book’s design was completed last Sunday, it was proofed the following Monday, and was uploaded to Amazon for Kindle, and other major e-pub book sites the same day. Prices were set and the book started selling on virtual bookstores around the world on Tuesday, the whole publishing operation completed in less than 72 hours. This is but one live demonstration of the speed that business is now done at. This new media-publishing endeavour involved a multinational team. Written and designed in Australia, the material was proofed by a Danish company in the Philippines (InWrite), the Apps were coded in Singapore and Thailand and the e-books were uploaded in the United States.
Roberts predicts that in the next twenty years, technology will advance so exponentially that it will exceed human intelligence, advances in biotechnology will allow medical science the capacity to provide software upgrades to your own DNA, and nanotechnology will make it possible to create any physical product using inexpensive information processes.
The Digital revolution, together with all the other five scientific revolutions, will place immortality and an unfathomable intelligence in our grasp.
In this edition Roberts reveals not only the many tools and processes of how one can thrive in this economy but he has also dealt with some of the social, spiritual, and philosophical implications that these advances in technology bring.
Roberts believes we are in the early stages of a technology-based revolution, a revolution that is changing the fabric of our civilisation. Changing the way we work, the way we learn, the way we interrelate, the way we buy and sell things, the way we are educated, and the way we are entertained—; in short, the very essence of the way we live. What will humanity look like in twenty years’ time? He offers a look.