Exponential Progress

The audiobook

Narrated by Lyle Blaker, Exponential Progress takes readers on a journey through more than seven decades of progress as technology has shaped and controlled everything from banking and business to education, medicine and the very basis of the human genome. It is for anyone looking to understand the emerging technologies that may disrupt our lives over the next ten years.

Where fact ends and fad begins

Humanity is progressing towards a world that will be dominated by the results of scientific inventions evolving over the next decade. Technological progress has accelerated: it was slow and buggy at the beginning, but the rate of improvement is now exponential. The growth is accelerating faster than we could once have imagined.

From a business perspective, these ground-breaking technologies are expected to be among the defining investments of the next decade. But where did it all start? How far have we come in the 70 years since the first digital computer? Thousands of innovators are developing the building blocks of technologies that may grow radically over the next decade and potentially shape the century. Civilisation has now reached a point where this progress can be difficult to control. The book cuts to the core of what humanity has achieved since the invention of the digital computer, where the next wave of technological innovation may come from and where the line is drawn between fact and fad.

This non-fiction work looks back at history, analyses current progress and considers what researchers have achieved so far. It examines the need for advancement, the potential of the next decade and the parallel necessity of responsible control.