
Epiphany Z
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A trend expert predicts what's next for fields like education and government while sharing how readers can shape their own futures. Epiphany Z is a dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light. Distilling decades of research, experience, and proven success in correctly identifying and accurately extrapolating today's trends and innovations into tomorrow's realities, futurist Thomas Frey gives you an advance ticket to the most explosive period of change in all of human history. Frey's unparalleled ability to detect emerging trends from the smallest of clues gives him an edge on other futurists. Now he's sharing the edge with you!
· What are tomorrow's hottest industries?
· What huge industries of today are doomed to extinction?
· How will our lives be changed by advancements in robotics, in drone technology, and in manufacturing and transportation?
· How can education cope with the explosive new world of enhanced information, hyperactive business environments, and unimaginable cultural shifts?
· Who will be the masters of tomorrow's universe-and who will be left behind?
· Above all, how can you protect yourself from the most disruptive aspects of the changes sweeping your way-as well as become one of the masters of these changes? Those changes are taking place now. Thomas Frey shows where they will be taking all of us tomorrow and offers a roadmap for the future.
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- Intro
- Title
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- Epiphany Z
- Designing the Dashboard of Your Destiny
- 12 Driving Forces Forging the World of Tomorrow
- 12 Laws of the Future
- The "Field of Knowability"
- Separating the Present from the Future
- Where do Great Ideas Come From? Where do They Go?
- Meet the Idea Expert
- Creating a Fertile Growing Environment for Epiphanies
- Creating a Picture of the Bigger Picture
- Epiphany Z-Optimizing Purpose
- 18 Reasons Why the Person You Were Still Matters
- 18 Reasons Why the Person You Were No Longer Matters
- 10 Questions that Neither Science nor Religion Answer
- The Feud Between Science and Religion
- Optimizing Evil
- Our Need for Resistance
- The Rise of the Cause-Architect
- Stage One-Launching a New Cause
- Stage Two-Defining Success
- Stage Three-Finding the End
- The Urgency of Purpose and the Forward Movement of Failure
- Epiphany Z-Optimizing Learning
- A Status Symbol Under Attack
- Components of Equivalency
- A Degree is No Measure of Who You Are- or of All You've Learned
- Quantifying Human Attributes
- Programming a Micro-College
- How Lean is Too Lean, and How Fat is Too Fat?
- Possible Types of Micro-Colleges
- The "Engineering Major" Scenario
- The Coming Transition
- Preparing Our Minds for Thoughts Unthinkable: The Future of Colleges and Universities The 10X Speed-Learning Scenario
- Redistributing Educational Wealth
- Rapid Courseware Creation
- Epihany Z-Optimizing Our Tools
- Hi, I'm a Robot, and I'm Here to Take Your Job
- The Displacement Myth
- Moving into an Era of Super-Efficient Humans
- The Work of the Future
- 101 Endangered Jobs by 2030
- Cause of Disruption: Driverless Cars
- Cause of Disruption: Flying Drones
- Cause of Disruption: 3D Printers
- Cause of Disruption: Contour Crafting
- Cause of Disruption: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Cause of Disruption: Mass Energy Storage
- Cause of Disruption: Robots
- The Growing Dangers of Technological Unemployment and the Re-skilling of America
- The Growing Dangers of Technological Unemployment
- Framing the Conversation First
- Placing Humans First
- All Industries Form a Bell Curve
- Many Industries are Entering the Downside of the Curve
- Peak Steel
- Epiphany Z-Optimizing Systems
- All Information Ever Created Still Exists
- Knowing the Past
- Stitching History
- Cause and Effect Relationships
- Finding Value in Old Information
- Protecting Endangered Information Resources
- Controlling Our Own Legacy
- A Growing Number of Legacy Tools
- Building a Digital Legacy Industry
- Launching the Whole Earth Genealogy Project
- The Science of Genealogy
- Missing Pieces
- Right to Genealogical Privacy
- An Organizing System for All Forms of Life
- Do we have the Right to be Forgotten?
- Circadian Time
- Continuous Daybreak
- Micro-Banding Time Zones
- Virtual Moments
- Global System Architects-Tomorrow's New Power Brokers
- From National Systems to Global Systems
- FedEx as a Global System
- Eight Current Global Systems
- Eight Emerging Global Systems
- Eight Future Global Systems
- Global System Architects-Tomorrow's Greatest Power Brokers?
- Epiphany Z-Optimizing Government
- Entering the Era of Global Mandates
- Catalytic Innovation
- Possible Scenarios
- Global Mandates
- The Coming Battle of the Mega-Influencers
- Leveraging the Internet for Influential Purpose
- When Prisons Become Illegal
- Our Current Incarceration Epidemic
- Punishment Vs. Rehabilitation
- A Note About Restorative Justice
- Envisioning a World Without Prisons
- All Those Damn Laws! Over 18 Million Laws in the U.S. and Climbing
- Society's Operating System
- Proposing a Solution: Laws That Manage the Laws
- Reigning in the Unreignable
- Epiphany Z-Optimizing Infrastructure
- The Curse of Infrastructure
- Working Within the Current System
- Philosophy of Infrastructure
- Sacred Cow Syndrome
- Life Cycles Are Getting Shorter
- Eight Stages of the Curse
- Disruptive Infrastructure
- 2050 and the Future of Infrastructure
- Competing for the World's Largest Infrastructure Project: Over 100 Million Jobs at Stake
- Transportation Trends
- Early History-The Vactrain
- Launching the Tube Transportation Era
- Hyperloop's Background
- The World's Largest Infrastructure Project
- The Value of a Super-Connected Society
- It Pays for Itself
- Epiphany Z-Optimizing Ourselves
- Human Life Calculations
- Seven Reasons Why the Value of Human Life is Increasing Exponentially
- Long-Range Implications
- Capturing Real Human Intelligence
- Refining the Relevance Algorithm
- Introducing Synaptical Currency Theory-Assigning Value to Brain Capital
- How Much is Brain Power Worth?
- Personal Accomplishments
- Twice as Much in Half the Time
- The Perfection Quandary
- Our Need to be Needed
- When Death Becomes Optional
- Dealing with the Issues
- The End of the End
- Epiphany Z-The Ultimate Epiphany
- New Planet Scenario
- Eight Critical Skills for the Future
- The Laws of Exponential Capabilities
- Laws of Exponential Capabilities
- LAW #1-With automation, every exponential decrease in effort creates an equal and opposite exponential increase in capabilities.
- LAW #2-As today's significant accomplishments become 168 more common, mega-accomplishments will take their place.
- LAW #3-As we raise the bar for our achievements, we 169 also reset the norm for our expectations.
- Mega-Projects of the Future
- Inspiring a Better World Ahead
- Eight Dimensions of Our Destiny-Pushing the Envelope of Human Existence
- Why Humans?
- Labeling these Dimensions
- Rewriting the Prime Directive
- Acknowledgements
- About Thomas Frey
- Contact Page
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