Converge A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide

by Ball, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781922611529
• ISBN10: 1922611522
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-10-25
• Publisher: Major Street Publishing
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Summary

Multi-award-winning scientific futurist Dr. Catherine Ball presents insights into how technology and science are providing answers to many of the challenges the world is facing today—food shortages, war and conflict, the decline in local manufacturing, health and ageing, and global warming—and asks why we are not embracing these technologies mo.re widely.

The answer in many cases is, ‘Because we don’t know about them!’ Well, now we do. Dr Catherine opens our eyes to the amazing, wide world of technological advancements and explores the role we all have in learning more, owning the conversations, and determining what we want technology to be.

What is the role AI can play in the resurgence of local manufacturing and creating new jobs? Can we vaccinate against cancer? How can drones save lives and assist Mother Nature in her fight to stop humans destroying our beloved planet? And how can we utilise the best modern technologies to live longer, healthier, and happier lives? Written with wit, tenacity, and deeply personal experiences, Converge offers an optimistic, in-depth, and fascinating investigation into the possibilities of a world where humans fully embrace technology.

Author Biography

Dr Catherine Ball is one of Australia’s leading scientific futurists and tech influencers. For years she has wowed audiences, boardrooms, university students and thousands of online followers with her vision for the future. She is global visioneer to XPRIZE, an advisor to the Schmidt Ocean Institute and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University, as well as a globally award-winning leader in the drone industry and a sought-after public speaker and consultant in the tech, startup, and futurist worlds.

Table of Contents

Foreword The future is already here… and it’s the end of the world as we know it
1. A mind of one’s own: the future of intelligence
2. The Fifth Industrial Revolution: the future of economics
3. Little data is big data: the future of personalisation
4. Factory equality and worker solidarity: the future of manufacturing
5. The last athlete in the metaverse: the future of sport
6. A drone by any other name: the future of aviation
7. Frankenfood and robotic rabbits: the future of what we eat
8. Digital doppelgangers: the future of health
9. The last thylacine: the future of wildlife
10. Vacations, staycations, spacecations: the future of tourism
11. Your 100th birthday party: the future of old age
12. The war with no dead: the future of geopolitics
13. Everybody needs good neighbours: the future of networking
14. The roof is on fire: the future of the planet
To dream the impossible dream