The Great Transition Ten Megatrends Reshaping Our Lives, Our Money, Our Work, and Our Future
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
21.08.2026
Verlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
474
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/3 cm
Gewicht
567 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798193963905
The world isn't simply changing. Several major transformations are happening at the same time-and together they may reshape how we live, work, earn, create, communicate, and understand the world around us.
Artificial intelligence is changing how we think and work. Robotics and automation are expanding what machines can do. Money is becoming increasingly digital and programmable. Individuals are gaining capabilities once reserved for corporations. Careers are becoming less predictable, global economic power is shifting, enormous new demands are being placed on energy systems, and algorithms are creating increasingly personalized information environments.
In The Great Transition: Ten Megatrends Reshaping Our Lives, Our Money, Our Work, and Our Future, Bruce Goldwell steps back from the daily headlines to examine the larger forces already reshaping civilization and where they may be taking us.
Rather than presenting sensational predictions as certainty, Goldwell separates what is happening now from the direction of travel and the possible future. The result is a practical exploration of change that asks not only what may happen, but why these changes are occurring, how they connect, and what they could mean for ordinary people.
The book explores the movement from Information to Intelligence; Human Labor to Human + Machine Labor; Money to Digital Value; Mass Production to Personal Production; Institutions to Individuals; Career to Reinvention; Globalization to a Multipolar World; Energy Consumption to Energy Abundance; Mass Media to Personalized Reality; and High Tech to High Human. A final master trend, From Knowledge to Judgment, connects them all.
Goldwell also brings the perspective of a generation that has already experienced astonishing technological change. Many Baby Boomers grew up with black-and-white tube televisions, wall telephones and party lines, typewriters, paper maps, film cameras, checks, and encyclopedias. They have lived long enough to see those technologies give way to smartphones, GPS, streaming media, online banking, digital assets, autonomous vehicles, reusable rockets, and artificial intelligence.
That history offers an important lesson: what seems extraordinary today can become completely ordinary tomorrow.
Who is this book for? It is for Baby Boomers who have already witnessed enormous change and wonder what comes next, as well as Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and younger readers who want to understand the forces shaping the world they are inheriting. It is for workers concerned about AI and automation, entrepreneurs and creators looking for emerging opportunities, business owners planning for technological disruption, educators thinking about the skills students will need, and readers interested in the transition toward digital money, stablecoins, tokenization, XRP, and new financial networks.
It is also for retirees considering a second or third act, parents thinking about the world their children will enter, investors trying to distinguish long-term structural change from temporary hype, and anyone who has looked at AI, robotics, digital finance, energy, media, or geopolitics and thought, Something much bigger is happening here.
This is not a book about fearing the future or blindly embracing every new technology. It is about recognizing change early enough to understand it, preparing for the opportunities and risks it creates, and preserving the human qualities that become even more important as machines become more capable.
We cannot know exactly what the world of 2040 will look like. But we can see many of the forces already moving us toward it.
The future is not something that simply happens to us. We are going to meet it.
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