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Present Future: Business, Science, and the Deep Tech Revolution Paperback – February 5, 2021
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2022 Next Big Idea Club Top 10 Business Book
2022 Gold Medalist in the AXIOM Business Book Awards in Business Technology
2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner in Science & Technology
Amazon Bestseller in General Technology & Reference, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Professional & Technical, Development & Growth Economics, and Technology
Learn from the past. Understand the present. Explore the future.
“ . . . Present Future is a fascinating, expert look at the history of the key technological advances affecting life today, and preparation for the exponential leaps yet to come. . . . ”
—BILL MARIS, Founder and First CEO of Google Ventures, Founder of Calico, Founder of Section 32
“With the context of an economic historian and the on-the-ground insights of an active technology investor, Perelmuter’s Present Future brings readers to the bleeding edge of the science and technologies poised to revolutionize the 21st century. Comprehensive and yet enthralling, the book is a must-read for anyone who has an intellectual or commercial interest in what the future may hold.”
—PETER HEBERT, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital
“. . . Perelmuter draws upon his own experiences as a successful tech entrepreneur and investor, and the writings of dozens of other experts, to highlight the most important implications of multiple emerging technologies. Recommended!”
—BEN CASNOCHA, Co-Author of the #1 New York Times best seller The Start-up of You
“A comprehensive survey of action across the entire frontier of advanced technologies is daunting in concept and even more so in execution. Guy Perelmuter has pulled it off, providing an accessible yet historically informed review from the world of algorithms to the world of genomic analysis by way of just about every field of science in between. Most important: He avoids the hype-ridden cheerleading that all too often accompanies accounts of breakthrough innovation. . . ”
—BILL JANEWAY, Venture Capitalist, Economist, Author of Doing Capitalism in The Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game Between Markets, Speculators and the State
- Print length354 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 5, 2021
- Dimensions6 x 0.89 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10173542451X
- ISBN-13978-1735424514
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- Publisher : Fast Company Press (February 5, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 354 pages
- ISBN-10 : 173542451X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1735424514
- Item Weight : 1.14 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.89 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #557,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #275 in Development & Growth Economics (Books)
- #434 in Computers & Technology Industry
- #1,616 in Technology (Books)
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About the author
GUY PERELMUTER is the founder of GRIDS Capital (www.gridscapital.com), a deep tech venture capital firm focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics, life sciences, and technological infrastructure. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering in 1994 and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1996, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He specialized in computer vision techniques using artificial intelligence. In 1997 he was one of the winners of the Brazil Young Scientist Award for the implementation of his solution for the production of texts in Braille using dot matrix printers, and he later went on to develop risk analysis systems for financial markets. His book Present Future was recognized by the Brazilian Book Chamber as the Best Science Book of 2020 in the 62nd edition of the annual Jabuti Prize.Guy enjoys playing the piano, shooting hoops, watching science fiction, and reading (a lot). He currently lives in Brazil with his wife and their son and daughter.
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This is a substantial book. Well-researched & written and extensively referenced. It will be of value to those who want to learn about the past 50-100 years as a work on the history of technology; it will also be of value to those who want to look forward to the next 10-20 years.
It has broad coverage of industries and fields of technology in its 20 chapters (from energy to AI to Biotech to Virtual Reality). In my view, its central premise is that the future is not entirely in the future: technologies that will shape our future 10-20 years exist at _present_ in concrete forms with pioneers / early adopter; we just have to look carefully.
It also cautions that many impactful technologies have had false starts (before achieving broad adoption/impact). There is human psychological bias to over-estimate the change that will happen in 1 year, become disillusioned, and under-estimate the 10 year impact, and thus not effectively use the present (small green shoots) to predict the near future.
Finally, I have to comment on the very elegant and innovative design of the table of content. Very well done. I highly recommend this book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2021
Finally, I have to comment on the very elegant and innovative design of the table of content. Very well done. I highly recommend this book.
I've bought a copy of the book for my older uncle (who loves technology, but never has worked in it) and he read it end to end over a week!
As importantly, this book presents a very balanced picture of the pros and cons of many of the modern technology trends. Hindsight will show us where we over- or under-stretched, but in the meantime, the author lets us approach these transitions in a thoughtful, balanced and informed way.