Fast Forward Investing: How to Profit from AI, Driverless Vehicles, Gene Editing, Robotics, and Other Technologies Reshaping Our Lives

In Fast Forward Investing, Markman describes what to expect, when to expect it, and how to profit in impending technological and economic revolution. Revealing the most important companies in the industry that are right now building platforms and competitive advantages that will disrupt and transform their markets, he shows which trends are important and provides detailed guidance for staying ahead of the curve.

Author’s Note:

The world is accelerating at an exponentially brisk pace toward a future in which cars drive themselves, software writes itself, faulty human genetic code edits itself, and the computing power helping all of this happen is virtually limitless. It is an era when fast forward is not just a button on a remote control; it is a description and an aspiration for entrepreneurs, workers, government officials, programmers, and physicians. The stretch of time that lies ahead has the potential to create the greatest economic boom that the world has ever known, surpassing the periods that featured the discovery of fire, the discovery of electricity, the magic of flight, or the invention of computers themselves. Every impressive technology we have seen up to now has just been a prelude.

Fast forward: It is a dream and reality at the same time, as yesterday’s science fiction becomes toys for children today, and crazy ideas like robotic trucks, Mach 1 ground transportation, drone armies, and highly intelligent and adaptive home furnishings are becoming a plausible reality. All of this is going to make entrepreneurs and their backers very wealthy, but public shareholders will benefit too, and grandly. And that’s the subject of this book.

This book chronicles how all of the building blocks are coming together, each augmenting the previous ones, enabling visionary entrepreneurs to build truly transformational businesses. I will show how powerful cloud networks democratized supercomputing, leading to groundbreaking changes in genomics and artificial intelligence. I will show how the rise of inexpensive sensors helped researchers turn the physical world into ethereal digital bits, and how information scientists are harnessing that data to build revolutionary software that is changing how products are built, and how services are delivered.

Also I will show the applications that are possible when all of these blocks come together. Get ready for self-driving cars, gene editing, and advances in life sciences that will bring microscopic robots, human organs generated in labs, and medical treatments tailored to our specific genomics. Most important, along the way, I will show you how to take advantage. I’m going to show you which trends are important, and which you should ignore. I’m going to lay out the fast forward movers and shakers, the companies building integral platforms and competitive advantages that will be difficult to reproduce. In short, I am going to show you which companies are most likely to make investors rich as they hurdle to the very edges of practice and possibility.

Contents:

• Cloud Computing: The New Electricity
• Sensors: Analog Becomes Digital
• Decoding the Genome: Stretching the Meaning of Life
• Big Data: Making Sense of It All
• Predictive Analytics: The End of Hit or Miss
• Artificial Intelligence: Computing Evolves
• Robotics: Rise of the Machines
• Blockchain: The Transparency Revolution
• Self-Driving Cars: The Ultimate Paradigm Shift
• The Internet of Things: Smart Networks Everywhere
• Gene Editing: Reshuffling the Building Blocks of Life
• Precision, Nano, and Regenerative Medicine: Science Fiction Meets Reality

Fast Forward Investing: How to Profit from AI, Driverless Vehicles, Gene Editing, Robotics, and Other Technologies Reshaping Our Lives By Jon D. Markman pdf