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
Louie Friedman (verified owner) –
Markman has written the definitive book on how to make sense of the incredibly rapid pace of technology transformation today—and more importantly, how to take advantage of it
Rose O’brien (verified owner) –
I followed Jon Markman’s column since the late ’90 when he wrote his Supermodels-columns at Microsoft Money.
He’s been right on the money till today with many stock tips that produced awesome results.
Pedro Swanson (verified owner) –
Great overview about the technologies, sectors of the future together with player actionable information about the key player companies.
Amos Vasquez (verified owner) –
Great book. Lots of ideas for investing. Don’t miss it.
Riley Herman (verified owner) –
I have been hearing about driverless cars and artificial intelligence, but until I read this book I didn’t realize how close they are to becoming important parts of our lives. Markman makes the subject very approachable and fascinating with interesting anecdotes and down to earth explanations. And more important, he offers long-term, patient investors some specific public companies you can buy to take advantage. Very cool.. Highly recommended my an industry veteran, institutional equity trader and portfolio manager.
Landry Cain (verified owner) –
Unique book that captures most all future technologies being pursued by companies that will disrupt our lives in mostly good ways.
Helen Winters (verified owner) –
We live in exciting times but unless you ride the coming technological wave that is happening at an exponential rate, it could be disastrous. I have been following Jon Markman (successfully) since the late ’90s so am not surprised about the breadth AND depth of his coverage of the technological landscape but it is still mind boggling. Because of my investing interest in tech through Jon and others, I am familiar with many of the concepts and companies he covered but still this sounds like science fiction. I will be putting all his recommended companies on my watch list.
Paulina Liu (verified owner) –
I found this book to be a fascinating and compelling read, and finished it in two days. I looked up almost all of the companies mentioned, while I was reading, and am amazed at the wealth of knowledge in this book. Each company’s stock had a Buy recommendation on Robinhood, with good reason to expect growth in this sector. The author did a masterful job of delineating what the details of emerging tech were, and showing how specific companies had positioned themselves to take advantage of upcoming opportunities. I will be following the recommendations given! If you have any questions about the value of the information, check out what it costs for a subscription to the Tech Trend Trader. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to profit from today/tomorrow’s emerging technological developments. I would even recommend it for someone who has no interest in investing, but is curious about what aspects of tech are real vs. rumor or scifi. When you read what steps companies have taken, and how many millions of dollars they have invested, in specific tech advances-it makes it far more real that this is what’s around the corner!