pstrongWhat if, instead of trying to predict the future, we could just pick the one we want - and then invent it Well, we can. This book describes seven stunning technological advances that will occur by 2050 and shows how to combine them, starting now, to build a future that will let billions thrive. strongppbrppThe smartphone in your pocket could guide 120 million Apollo-era spacecraft to the moon and back, all at the same time. And whatever replaces that phone in 30 years will be a million times more powerful. Many other technologies are on similar trajectories, and the core tools of genomics - which let us understand and even manipulate genetic code - are actually improving far faster, with broad implications for our health, for the foods we eat, and for just about everything else. ppbrppHow can a person even visualize a MILLION-fold improvement over 30 years, let alone a series of them that will interact with each other in profound ways The traditional approach has been to think i