The year is 2050. You wake up in a home thrumming with energy so cheap you can barely find it on your monthly bill. Outside, an autonomous drone is dropping off a shipment of star pills: inexpensive medicine that slows ageing, created in the zero-gravity environment of space.
Your friend calls from the airport—he’s flying New York to London in just over two hours. His plane, fueled by traditional and synthetic fuels, will reach twice the speed of sound.
This future is within our grasp, says Derek Thompson. We have everything we need to create it. But we need to start building.
His new book Abundance, co-authored with Ezra Klein, has made headlines across the media: Derek has appeared everywhere from Amanpour and Company to The Daily Show, and from MSNBC to CNN. Slate writes that the book’s optimism is “compelling, even joyous,” adding that “the timing of Abundance is extraordinary.” David Brooks writes that the authors “inspire hope and enlarge the imagination by describing the good things that are actually within our grasp.”
A popular podcast host and staff writer at The Atlantic, Derek is a brilliant keynote speaker who effortlessly synthesizes mega-trends in society, labor, economics, technology, and politics. His dynamic, inspiring talks show audiences exactly what these mega-trends mean for us, helping us understand how we live, how we vote, how we spend, and how we work.
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