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About the Author

Mauro F. Guillen is director of the Lauder Institute and the Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management and Sociology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1964-09-30
Sexo
male

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Despite its futurist-sounding title, the book mostly covers subjects whose trends are so far along as to be “inevitable”, as the title of author Kevin Kelly’s forecast book claims. This makes it a good overview of the present, and I thought it was a helpful and highly-readable guide to the biggest trends happening now.

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richardSprague | 5 outras críticas | Mar 26, 2022 |
I was rather disappointed in this - I expected more. None of the trends mentioned in here are very surprising and often there's a fair bit of handwaving of this will happen - but without any real delve into what that might change as of 2030. My audiobook did have a brief update mentioning Covid but just to say it would accelerate all these trends - not sure I'm convinced by that. I have a few other books to read on tech trends so hope they are less disappointing.
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infjsarah | 5 outras críticas | May 31, 2021 |
Not particularly impressed. I wanted to be, just wasn't. It's a nice overview of interesting topics to look out for over the next couple of years, but it doesn't scratch the surface for any of them. Any reader of The Economist won't find any of these discussions particularly novel.

There are some really odd jabs. The author mentions that millennials won't know what CDs are, which is a bizarre statement.

When talking about crypto, he doesn't seem to grasp one of the key selling points—that it's trustless. None of the examples he gave require any sort of a trustless ledger.… (mais)
 
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saimaus | 5 outras críticas | Apr 19, 2021 |
This was interesting, but I'd be lying if I said it was mind-blowing. It is essentially a review of the demographic shifts occurring the world, and speculation as to how said world will have to adapt to those shifts. (My guess is, it will adapt very poorly. Civilization is great at adapting in the long term, and really awful at doing so in the short term.)
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jarlalex | 5 outras críticas | Nov 25, 2020 |

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Obras
22
Membros
220
Popularidade
#101,715
Avaliação
3.1
Críticas
6
ISBN
65
Línguas
1

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