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A New Age of Reason: Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good

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Leverage technology to propel humankind toward a better future

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, 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
  • 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.



Table of Contents:

Foreword vii

Introduction xi

Part 1 Technology, Humanity, and a New Age of Reason 1

Chapter 1 A New Wave of Technology to Better Humanity 3

Chapter 2 Agtech and Deere: Tech for Good at Its Best 7

Chapter 3 Technology and the Planet 19

Chapter 4 Innovations for a Healthier Population 35

Chapter 5 Timing Is Everything 47

Part 2 The Potential for Great Leaps 57

Chapter 6 The Seventh Wave of Modern Computing 59

Chapter 7 AI Enriching the Human Experience 73

Chapter 8 Chips and Sensors Everywhere 87

Chapter 9 The Promise of Quantum Computing 97

Chapter 10 Sustainably Powering Our Future 111

Chapter 11 The Surging Biological Systems Wave 127

Chapter 12 Harnessing Technology’s Potential 141

Part 3 Humanity and Technology: The Path Forward 147

Chapter 13 Becoming a Tech for Good Organization 149

Chapter 14 Key Questions to Find Your Pathway 157

Chapter 15 Has Marketing Disappeared? 163

Chapter 16 Putting Innovations on the Path of Good 171

Chapter 17 A Time for Reason 187

Acknowledgments 193

About the Author 195

Notes 197

Index 215


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781394216604
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 502 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1394216602
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jul 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good
  • Width: 155 mm


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