The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

Whether we achieve the Singularity on a cosmic scale is perhaps less important than whether we seize the unique opportunities we have to do new things in our own working lives. Everything important to us—the universe, the planet, the country, your company, your life, and this very moment—is singular. Our task today is to find singular ways to creat

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The world until recently was overflowing with onramps of opportunity, even for children, and we seem to do poorly at producing new ones. Modern complexity may have erased some avenues for agency (no boy can meaningfully learn the telegraph), but I suspect how we have oriented the world, not technology, is the main problem.

These are just a few of the ways that the pure chemistry of ideas mutates into new compounds through exposure to the oxygen of real societies, patterns which mean that the originators of ideas can rarely know what will happen to them. Nor is there any easy way to situate imaginative ideas in time—to know whether they might bear fruit in a decade, a

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The central question of this book is this: Where do prosperity and economic security come from? I believe they don’t come from a single magic-bullet mechanism like wage subsidies, a robot tax, tougher antitrust measures, a higher minimum wage, or universal basic income. Rather they can only emerge from a complex macro mechanism that goes way beyond

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