Unsupervised

How a broad range of immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality—and why you must act and adapt

Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionise our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history, who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision. It explains why we as business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, educators, lawmakers, investors, or users and all responsible citizens must act now to influence and help oversee the future of a technological world.

Quantum computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, decentralisation, virtual and augmented reality, and permanent connectivity are just a few of the technologies and trends considered, but the book delves much deeper, too. You'll find a thorough analysis of energy and medical technologies, as well as cogent predictions for how new tech will redefine your work, your money, your entertainment, your transportation, your home, and cities, and what you need to know to harness and prosper from these technologies.

Authors Daniel Doll-Steinberg and Stuart Leaf draw on their decades of building and implementing disruptive technologies, investing and deploying funds, and advising business leaders, governments, and supranational bodies on change management, the future of work, innovation and disruption, education, and the economy to consider how every area of our lives, society, economy, and government will likely witness incredible changes in the coming decade. When we look just a bit further into the future, we can see that the task facing us is to completely reinvent life as we know it—work, resources, war, and even humanity itself will undergo redefinition, thanks to these new and emerging tools. In Unsupervised, you'll consider what these redefinitions might look like, and how we as individuals, and part of society, can prevent powerful new technologies from falling into the wrong hands or being built to harm us.

• Get a primer on the foundational technologies that are reshaping business, pleasure, and life as we know it.
• Learn about the lesser-known, yet astonishing, technologies set to revolutionise medicine, agriculture, and beyond.
• Consider the potential impact of new tech across business sectors—and what it means for you.
• Gain the knowledge and inspiration you need to harness your own power and push the future in the direction of good for all of us, not just the few.
• Explore the best ways to invest in the changes these technologies of the future will bring about.

This is a remarkably thorough and comprehensive look at the future of technology and everything it touches, shining a light on many unsupervised technologies and their unsupervised oligarchy of masters.