Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War - Hardcover

Byron Reese

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608324044 ISBN 13: 9781608324040

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2013

Synopsis

For years we've been inundated with bleak forecasts about the future. But in this electrifying new book, author Byron Reese debunks the pessimistic outlook as dangerous, and shows instead how technology will soon create a dramatically better world for every person on earth, beyond anything we have dared to imagine.

With the art of a storyteller, Reese synthesizes history, technology, and sociology into an exciting, fast-moving narrative that shows how technological change has had dramatic effects on humanity in the past. He then looks forward at the technological changes we know are coming--from genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and many other fields--and explores how they will vastly increase wealth, prolong our lifespans, redefine human rights, and alter the social fabric of the world.

Reese explains how the Internet, human ingenuity, and technological innovation will help us forever end the five historic plagues of human existence: ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war. With a rational and researched optimism, Reese sees the future not as a world in a downward spiral, but as destined for progress beyond our imaginations.

As Reese looks forward, he notes that ''we are gaining speed, not winding down. We are blooming, not withering, as we leverage the greatest natural resource on the planet: the human mind.''

The future of Earth's inhabitants has never been brighter. If you want to get excited about the future, then this is the book for you.

About this title

About the Author:

Byron Reese is the founder of several high-tech companies and has obtained or has pending numerous patents in disciplines as varied as crowdsourcing, content creation, and psychographics. Together the websites he has launched have received over a billion visitors, covering a variety of topics including news, reference, and history.

Bloomberg Businessweek credits Reese as having ''quietly pioneered a new breed of media company'' and the Financial Times describes him as one of the ''new wave of internet entrepreneurs out to turn the economics of the media industry on its head.'' Even Business Insider calls him an ''awesome guy.''

Reese currently heads up research and development for Demand Media (NYSE: DMD)

Review:

"This is a valuable book--an antidote to the harmful gloom and moralizing that pervades most discussions of the future, and a beacon showing us the paths we could take."
--Steven Pinker, professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1608324044
• ISBN 13: 9781608324040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312