A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough
innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.
We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made
major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with
enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of
innovation is needed. On the Brink of Utopia, by authors Thomas Ramge
and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel
Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that--a new and coherent framework for
fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their
"Innovation Leap Paradigm," they present seven steps in seven chapters
and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be
tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic,
and cultural environments foster radical innovation?
The authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real
problems, anywhere from climate change and hunger to obesity and
menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work
from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within
months for any emerging virus, where green energy will be too cheap to
meter and aerial carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at
scale. Offering a new perspective on innovation that centers not just
American readers but also readers from all over the world, On the Brink
of Utopia is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of
innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster
innovation leaps that maximize the well-being of the greatest number of
people.
