Alec Ross

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years—for businesses, governments, and the global community—and how we can navigate them. While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor on Innovation, he traveled to forty-one countries. He visited some of the toughest places in the world—from refugee camps of Congo to Syrian war zones. From phone-charger stands in Rwanda to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds. Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. InThe Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what's next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money, payments, and markets. And in each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world's rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley in creating their own innovation hotspots? Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, incorporating the insights of leaders ranging from the founders of Google and Twitter to defense experts like David Petraeus. The Industries of the Future takes the intimidating, complex topics that many of us know to be important and boils them down into clear, plain-spoken language. This is an essential work for understanding how the world works—now and tomorrow—and a must-read for businesspeople, in every sector, from every country.

The Industries of the Future

Industries of the Future

Le aziende plasmano la nostra vita quotidiana da più di due secoli, nel bene e nel male. Tutto è cominciato con la Rivoluzione industriale: allora gli stati si attrezzarono per fare da contrappeso e controllare l’influenza crescente di aziende e imprenditori, mentre i cittadini potevano scegliere i propri leader. Il patto si è conservato fino a oggi. Negli anni venti questo equilibrio si è rotto. Il mercato viene monopolizzato da poche multinazionali, che diventano sempre più ciclopiche: negli Stati Uniti la linea di confine che separa Walmart, la più grande catena di negozi al dettaglio, dalle sale del Congresso è diventata sottile come un rasoio. Questo fenomeno apparentemente inarrestabile riguarda tutti i Paesi del mondo, anche l’Italia. Che rischia di restare soffocata. È sempre più nell’interesse delle aziende comportarsi come nazioni – e quindi investire in difesa, contratti esteri, data mining e intelligence. E quando i governi si affannano in infinite trattative diplomatiche, rallentati dalla burocrazia e incapaci di prendere decisioni rapide sull’assistenza sanitaria e sul cambiamento climatico, le persone cominciano a guardare proprio alle aziende, che ostentano l’agilità e la potenza necessarie ad affrontare i grandi problemi del nostro tempo. Nei prossimi dieci anni le nostre vite cambieranno. Alec Ross conosce molto bene le persone e le regole che governano le big tech e le grandi multinazionali e impongono la metamorfosi esistenziale, politica ed economica che stiamo attraversando. Da insider, Ross svela le logiche del potere di questi colossi, racconta storie affascinanti e geniali di reazione al loro monopolio e così getta le basi per un nuovo contratto sociale, capace di ascoltare i lavoratori e i cittadini di fronte a una rivoluzione globale senza precedenti.

La guerra fra Stati, aziende e persone per un nuovo contratto sociale

I furiosi anni venti

'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - Adam Grant Huge corporations are acting like nations, global wealth is going to billionaires and ordinary people are suffering. It's set to be a rocky decade - but we can fix it. As the market consolidates under fewer and larger companies, it's increasingly in the interest of private companies to behave like nations. And when the government is bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and culture wars, people begin to look to nimble, powerful companies to solve society's problems - and to be our moral standard-bearers. It shouldn't be like this. New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross weaves interviews with the world's most influential thinkers with fascinating stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models being implemented around the world, to propose a new social contract - one that benefits workers and everyday citizens in the face of unprecedented global change.

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