72 - Future Industries - Alec Ross, in his 2016 book Industries of the Future lays out five trends that will shape the future: Robotics, Advanced Life Sciences, Code-ification of Money, Cyber Security, and Big Data. - Source.
Note on the source - I actually own this book and took notes on it. But because I suck and didn’t have a zettelkasten at the time, I have no clue where those notes actually are. One of the helpful layers of structure of the zettelkasten is the centralization of notes.
A good question is how well his argument still holds up 4 years later? Something to think about.
Further planned Research:
- The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives - 2020
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future - 2017
- Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will - 2016
- Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future - 2016
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant - 2016
- Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation - 2013