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The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robotics, robot, AI, and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" the authors expect in the year ahead: an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change. Contributors included Michael Walton, Brandon Coats, Carl Vause, Dr Djamila Amimer, Erik Nieves, Ragu Athinarayanan, Grant Richards, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Matthew Wicks, PE, Jason Gouw, Pat Davison, Peter Bladh, Thomas C. ...

Energy and power are critical requirements for economic growth. With rising global wealth, global oil and power demand is rising even as the energy mix is changing. The push toward less carbon-intensive fuel and power substitutes is gaining momentum. But material science realities present some significant challenges and limitations — especially with growing demand. The Future of Energy examines a dozen major trends that will impact energy demand, supply, use, and substitution in the decade ahead — and how companies, industries, and individuals can be prepared!

The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robot and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" that each author sees in the year ahead: an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change. The robot, automation, and AI thought leaders that contributed to this book include Samuel Alexandersson, Djamila Amimer, Fred van Beuningen, Keith Blanchet, Jeff Burnstein, Lorenzo Carver, Brian La Cour, Craig Fuller, Jason Gouw, Rob Handfield, ...

What will 2022 hold for automation, robots, and artificial intelligence? The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robot and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" that each author sees in the year ahead: an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change. Aside from Jason Schenker, contributors to the 2021 almanac include Michael Walton, Bruce Welty, Shannon McGurk, Djamila Amimer, Jason Gouw, Bruce Bleikamp, Steven LaFevers,...

Learn to unlock the value of economic indicators. Understanding the economy is important for your company, your profession, and your career. The good news is that there are many economic reports that offer insights into the economy, financial markets, and specific industries. Wouldn’t you like to know what's next for the economy? In Reading the Economic Tea Leaves, top-ranked economist Jason Schenker shares his knowledge about the economy to help you unlock the value of economic indicators, reports, and data.

Blockchain technology offers tremendous hope and promise to drastically improve data transparency and data sharing, as well as reduce the risk of a central point of failure for corporate, government, and private entities. But there is also significant hype around blockchain that has been driven by the bubble in cryptocurrency investments and people who don't want to miss out on the next wave of new technology. What will determine the future of blockchain - the hope or the hype? This is the subject tackled by the world's leading financial futurist, Jason Schenker, in The Promise of Blockchain.

Major disruptive changes are coming to the future of finance. Trends and technologies in place before the COVID-19 pandemic have been accelerated. Modern monetary theory, rising debt levels, overburdened entitlements, blockchain, and quantum computing will push the world of finance to its limits. In The Future of Finance After COVID, the top-ranked economist and futurist Jason Schenker shares his visions for the financial future ahead. The book includes a discussion of what comes after the #COVID19 pandemic, shutdown, and #recession, including . - The key levers of FinTech. - Monetary ...

There has been a recent significant economic, financial market, and business slowdown. And there are still significant threats ahead. In coming months and quarters, it will be a critical time to improve profitability. But haphazardly cutting costs won't get us there. At a critical time like this, it's important to engage in strategic cost cutting by using data, analysis, and proven best practices to identify and reduce excess spending. In Strategic Cost-Cutting , world-recognized management consultant, Jason Schenker, shares best practices to cut your way to higher levels of profitability, ...

This book has been featured on Bloomberg Television and CNN TV. The impact of COVID-19 has been unprecedented in many ways, but what could the future hold after there is widespread availability of a vaccine? While 2021 may be a year in which the world moves toward recovery, the economic, business, political, and social impacts in the wake of COVID will be staccato and punctuated by uncertainty. In After the COVID Vaccine, top-ranked forecaster and Chairman of The Futurist Institute, Jason Schenker, offers futurist perspectives on the opportunities, risks, challenges, and threats to ...

What will happen to travel in the wake of COVID — and in the decade beyond? A collection of essays in The Future of Travel: Trends and Technologies Shaping the Decade Ahead from The Futurist Institute answers this critical question. Leading experts, futurists, and executives in travel, leisure, and hospitality contributed essays focused on the most important future trends impacting these industries, including the associated opportunities, priorities, perception shifts, and challenges that will shape the decade ahead. Buckle up and come along for the ride as The Futurist Institute presents...

Major disruptive changes are coming to the future of food and agriculture. Trends and technologies in place before the COVID-19 pandemic have been accelerated. Automation, robotics, and blockchain will be critical elements of a disruptive future for food and agriculture. But even more important disruptions will come from technologies pushing to meet the rising global demand for calories and protein. With the global population likely to increase by 2 around billion through 2050, the future of agriculture is fraught with challenges that we must rise to meet. In The Future of Food and ...

The big idea of this book is to help you write your own book on the future of technology, finance, management, or business in under 30 days to build your profile as a leader and visionary. If you want to be taken seriously as a thought leader and expert, you need to have a book. And I know so many people who talk about “the book” they want to write. But years go by and it never happens. This book is my attempt to help would-be authors everywhere tell their stories and share their visions with the world.

Becoming a leader can take a long time. But it doesn't have to! By identifying and building extreme competence - or spikes - in a few key areas, you can rapidly accelerate your path to leadership. Let spikes take your career to the next level!

Are you ready to become an author? Books are the business cards of leaders. Leaders tell their stories and share their experiences. This is why leaders write books. Being an author signals leadership, authority, and experience. In The Author Institute Method, you will learn how to tell your story, write a complete book, and publish your book in a short amount of time. If you want to lead, it's time for you to become an author. The Author Institute was founded in 2020 by international best-selling author Jason Schenker to help leaders tell their stories, build their brands, and elevate their...

Automation, robotics, and future technology present tremendous opportunities - but also significant threats. Narratives that present the economic and social future as purely negative or purely positive are both fundamentally flawed. The way forward if fraught with challenges, and we must bridge critical gaps between the present and the future to fully reap the benefits after COVID. In Jobs for Robots, top-ranked futurist and economist Jason Schenker shares his visions on the future opportunities and challenges ahead. Jason Schenker is a futurist, economist, and author who prepares leaders ...

Quantum: Computing Nouveau has been ranked one of the top books ever written on Quantum Computing by Book Authority. Jason Schenker did a formal book signing of Quantum: Computing Nouveau at SXSW in 2019. There is a growing need for a step change in computer processing power that is driving a technological push to develop the first commercially viable quantum computer. The exponentially stronger computational potential of quantum computers could foster scientific discovery, break blockchains, and trigger a global cybersecurity arms race. To be ready for the opportunities and challenges of ...

The future of finance is already here. Industries are being disrupted by new and emerging technologies. The coming decade will bring an acceleration of technological innovation, adoption, and disruption. But finance has long been an industry at the forefront of technology adoption, which is why some of the most critical technological innovations and solutions for finance have already emerged. The Future of Finance is Now explores the most important innovations in finance technology (FinTech) as well as major financial and economic dynamics that will impact the world of finance in the decade...

Jason Schenker is the world's leading financial futurist and a columnist for Bloomberg. In this book he shares a groundbreaking vision of the tremendous opportunities - and significant threats - presented by robots and automation technology. Jobs for Robots puts the debate about robots and automation in a uniquely constructed context that draws on Mr. Schenker's knowledge of economics, history, and future technology. And this book presents actionable insights for readers to robot-proof their lives and careers. Jobs for Robots includes compelling discussions about the future of work, ...

You need to make your supply chain futureproof. Supply chain has been a vanguard industry for recent technology disruption as well as the adoption of automation and robotics. But what disruptions lie ahead? Futureproof Supply Chain examines more than a dozen major risks ahead -- and how companies, industries, and individuals can prepare to be futureproof.

The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robot and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" that each author sees in the year ahead: an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change. Aside from Jason Schenker, contributors to the 2021 almanac include Michael Walton, Kevin Paramore, Brandon Coats, Chris Lingamfelter, Djamila Amimer, Kyle Palko, Ragu Athinarayanan, Xiumin Diao, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Matthew Frazier, Patrick...