{"id":29,"date":"2021-08-17T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alecross.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2021-08-30T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:27:06","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alecross.com\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#8e8883″ bg_image=”36″ bg_position=”center top” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding_tablet=”14%” bottom_padding_tablet=”8%” top_padding_phone=”14%” bottom_padding_phone=”8%” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” enable_shape_divider=”true” shape_divider_color=”#556460″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_divider_height=”75″ shape_divider_bring_to_front=”true” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”curve”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-3-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#556460″ scene_position=”center” top_padding=”3%” bottom_padding=”3%” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” id=”raging-2020s” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” enable_shape_divider=”true” shape_divider_color=”#3b3c57″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_divider_height=”75″ bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”curve”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-5-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left-right” column_element_spacing=”default” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”20″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left-right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

The Raging 2020s<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][tabbed_section style=”minimal_alt” alignment=”left” spacing=”default” tab_color=”Accent-Color” cta_button_style=”accent-color” icon_size=”24″][tab icon_family=”none” title=”Description” id=”1630337194375-6″ tab_id=”1630337194375-9″][vc_column_text]The world needs a book that explains the car crash at the intersection of business, government, and everyday people.\u00a0THE RAGING 2020s: Companies, Countries, People \u2014 and The Fight for Our Future<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is that book.<\/p>\n

For 150 years, there has been a social contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. Governments hold the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. Today\u2019s global companies are as powerful as countries, and on issues ranging from privacy to sustainability to diversity and workers\u2019 rights, we are more governed by companies than we are by governments. Whether the future looks more like Star Trek<\/em> or more like Mad Max<\/em> comes down to a very human question that we cannot outsource to algorithms: Will we come together to rewrite our social contract? As the world rages amidst pandemic, rising inequality, and increasingly frequent climate disasters, Alec Ross<\/strong>\u2014New York Times\u2013<\/em>bestselling author, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna Business School\u2014offers a path forward in THE RAGING 2020s.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Through interviews with the world\u2019s most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure, and renewal, The Raging 2020s<\/em>\u00a0examines the economic and political forces that brought us to where we are today and looks at the trends shaping the decade to come.<\/p>\n

An essential blueprint for the modern era,\u00a0THE RAGING 2020s<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a prescient, evidence-based, and wildly innovative accounting of what\u2019s gone awry and what can be done.[\/vc_column_text][\/tab][tab icon_family=”iconsmind” title=”Praise” id=”1630337194392-6″ tab_id=”1630337194393-3″][vc_column_text]\u201cAlec Ross fearlessly confronts one of the fundamental concerns of our time: fixing the broken social contract between people, business, and government. His book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Adam Grant, #1\u00a0<\/strong>New York Times\u2013<\/em><\/strong>bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is special. At a time when uncertainty fills every conversation and our recent history has left so many vulnerable,\u00a0The Raging 2020s\u00a0<\/em>doesn\u2019t just add clarity, it offers direction. Alec leaves the reader with both understanding and hope in a way not many can, and he continues to show why he is one of the foremost thinkers of our time. This book helps set the direction our society should follow.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Wes Moore, author, combat veteran, and social entrepreneur\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAlec Ross is a keen analyst and brilliant storyteller.\u00a0The Raging 2020s\u00a0<\/em>introduces us to the people whose lives are blighted by unconscionable policies and concentrations of power, helping us understand and indeed share the rage that fuels many 21st-century political movements. Best of all, Ross is willing to speak truth to power in recommending a set of bold but realistic solutions.\u201d \u2014Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America Foundation, and Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA gripping, illuminating chronicle that provides a wonderful birds-eye view from the heights of government and international business, that solidifies Ross\u2019s position among the most visionary of global thinkers on the future of technology and its implications, and that also is an amazingly enjoyable, page-turning read!\u201d\u00a0\u2014General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/tab][tab icon_family=”none” title=”+ Buy” id=”1630337194401-9″ tab_id=”1630337194402-0″][nectar_global_section id=”70″][\/tab][\/tabbed_section][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#3b3c57″ scene_position=”center” top_padding=”3%” bottom_padding=”3%” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” id=”industries-of-the-future” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” enable_shape_divider=”true” shape_divider_color=”#556460″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_divider_height=”75″ bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”curve”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-5-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left-right” column_element_spacing=”default” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”53″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left-right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

The Industries of the Future<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][tabbed_section style=”minimal_alt” alignment=”left” spacing=”default” tab_color=”Accent-Color” cta_button_style=”accent-color” icon_size=”24″][tab icon_family=”none” title=”Description” id=”1630337194481-0″ tab_id=”1630337194482-9″][vc_column_text]The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a \u201cfascinating vision\u201d (Forbes<\/em>) of what\u2019s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0The Industries of the Future<\/em>, Ross provides a \u201clucid and informed guide\u201d (Financial Times<\/em>) to the changes coming in the next ten years. He examines the fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics and artificial intelligence, cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the impact of digital technology on money and markets. 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\u2019s rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley with their own innovation hotspots? And what can today\u2019s parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow?<\/p>\n

Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to show how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live. Sharing insights from global leaders\u2014from the founders of Google and Twitter to defense experts like David Petraeus\u2014Ross reveals the technologies and industries that will drive the next stage of globalization.\u00a0The Industries of the Future<\/em>\u00a0is \u201ca riveting and mind-bending book\u201d (New York Journal of Books<\/em>), a \u201cmust read\u201d (Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America) regardless of \u201cwhether you follow these fields closely or you still think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company\u201d (Forbes<\/em>).[\/vc_column_text][\/tab][tab icon_family=”iconsmind” title=”Praise” id=”1630337194496-3″ tab_id=”1630337194497-5″ el_class=”buylinks”][vc_column_text]\u201cA fascinating vision of the future of industry.\u00a0The Industries of the Future<\/em>\u00a0reads like a portable TED conference at which you have been seated next to the smartest guy in the room. The book is filled with glimpses of cutting-edge biotech research, statecraft, and entrepreneurship.\u201d
\n\u2014Forbes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“A lucid and informed guide, even on the most technical issues.”
\n\u2014Financial Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“In a world growing more chaotic, Alec Ross is one of those very rare people who can see patterns in the chaos and guidance for the road forward. He has an unusual diversity of expertise that allows him to apply multiple lenses to the world’s challenges and dream up the kind of innovative solutions that are changing the world.”
\n\u2014<\/em>Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google<\/strong><\/p>\n

“How can we prepare our children\u2014and ourselves\u2014to succeed in a world of robotics, globalization, and digitally driven markets? In this valuable book, Alec Ross analyzes what it will take to survive and even thrive. The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening.”
\n\u2014<\/em>Walter Isaacson,\u00a0author and historian<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA brilliant, captivating description of the profound changes that will be ushered in by advances in robotics, big data, and genomics\u2014and of the implications of those developments for employment, wealth distribution, and global trade. Alec Ross combines an extraordinary understanding of future trends with an equally extraordinary ability to describe those trends and explain what they mean for the world in the decades ahead.\u201d
\n\u2014<\/em>General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The next 20 years are going to be even faster-moving and more transformative than the 20 we just lived through. Predicting exactly what is going to happen is impossible. But thinking systematically and strategically, as Alec Ross does here, about robotics, genomics, and the codification of everything is absolutely critical. Anyone who wants to understand the key forces that are shaping our economic, political, and social futures will benefit hugely from Ross’s insights.”
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