Juan Orbea

At the end of high school, most graduating seniors are given their diplomas with a heaping side of platitudes, many of them patently preposterous. Such as, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Or “You can be anything you want to be.” And especially, “With grit and determination, there’s nothing you can’t do."

Before considering further the implications of the Singularity, let’s examine the wide range of technologies that are subject to the law of accelerating returns. Given that the electrons have less distance to travel, the circuits also run twice as fast, providing an overall quadrupling of computational power. After sixty years of devoted service,... See more

Not to mention people's capacity to study more as an attempt to improve how "smart" they were was virtually futile.

The book calatogs over 100 mini case studies of other innovators who are defining state-of-the-art in those 11 building block areas.