Joel Barker's latest book offers a bold new way of looking at today’s rapidly evolving technologies. Together with fellow futurist Scott Erickson, he casts technology as five distinct "ecosystems" that each operates with a distinct set of values, advantages, and disadvantages:

Five Regions of the Future

• Super Tech: Bigger, better, more! (e.g., fusion power)

• Limits Tech: Use what you’ve got (e.g., aerogel insulation)
• Local Tech: Think small, think home (e.g., electric wind turbines)
• Nature Tech: Be one with nature (e.g., organic plastics)
• Human Tech: What lies within us (e.g., stem cells)
  

From pet robots to hypersonic planes, from wave power to waterless toilets, Barker and Erickson give readers a totally new way to understand and take advantage of the future of technology. Five Regions of the Future is an essential book for anyone baffled by today’s technological onslaught.

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