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A New Age of Reason
audiobook

A New Age of Reason

by Larry Weber, Brandon Pollock
September 2024
7h 24m
English
Ascent Audio

Overview

A New Age of Reason: Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good provides a roadmap for integrating emerging world-changing technologies, such as AI/robotics, chips/sensors, and quantum computing, to solve some of today's thorniest and most pressing problems like climate change and world hunger.



The author offers inspiring examples of companies using technology to positively impact humanity. The book provides an actionable playbook to transform your organization around this mission, including how to develop a tech for good strategy, how to evolve the C-Suite to deliver on this mission and how to market it, as well as measure outcomes. The author also discusses the latest technology breakthroughs delivering positive world outcomes, such as extending a surgeon's "eyes and hands" via robotics surgical systems to improve patient outcomes; computer vision tech that enables farmers to maximize crops to feed our burgeoning population; and AI/robotics that identify and fight wildfires.



Bringing together a collective of major thinkers on this subject and providing guidance for a better future, A New Age of Reason: Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good is a timely read for all executive leaders seeking to harness the new wave of technology to solve key societal problems and have a positive impact on the world.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781663746559