Infinite Progress Audiobook by Byron Reese
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Title: Infinite Progress Subtitle: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War Author: Byron Reese Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 03-12-13 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 50 votes Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary: For years weve been inundated with bleak forecasts about the future. But in this electrifying new book, author Byron Reese debunks the pessimistic outlook as dangerous, and shows instead how technology will soon create a dramatically better world for every person on earth, beyond anything we have dared to imagine. With the art of a storyteller, Reese synthesizes history, technology, and sociology into an exciting, fast-moving narrative that shows how technological change has had dramatic effects on humanity in the past. He then looks forward at the technological changes we know are coming - from genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and many other fields - and explores how they will vastly increase wealth, prolong our lifespans, redefine human rights, and alter the social fabric of the world. Reese explains how the Internet, human ingenuity, and technological innovation will help us forever end the five historic plagues of human existence: ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war. With a rational and researched optimism, Reese sees the future not as a world in a downward spiral, but as destined for progress beyond our imaginations. As Reese looks forward, he notes that we are gaining speed, not winding down. We are blooming, not withering, as we leverage the greatest natural resource on the planet: the human mind. The future of Earths inhabitants has never been brighter. If you want to get excited about the future, then this is the book for you.

Members Reviews: Sugar Shock Optimism I hope hes accurate Byron Reese is a historian. In his latest work, Infinite Progress he sets a high bar for Internet and Technology. He spells out his optimism in his title How the Internet and Technology will end ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger and war. Yikes! As a fellow Internet aficionado and technology practitioner, I just had to see what this was all about. In the first chapter I worked my way up the ladder of optimism shock a kind of sugar shock, just without ingesting a ton of jelly beans. The basis for Reese giving you his predictions are built on five principles: 1) futurists often get it wrong; 2) history can help us get it right; 3) internet technology + human ingenuity = infinite promise; 4) accelerating progress is inevitable; and, 5) the new renaissance has begun. Pretty heady stuff! Of these five principles there really is only one real premise three assertions and one dollop of hope. I really dont think Reese made his argument in the end. But.... I have read other books in this genre, for example the "Next 100 Years" by George Friedman and this work has a place along side. I would have to say that spending 10 hours dwelling on things might go right instead of 10 hours of the things that have gone wrong was a refreshing change. Even if you dont buy what Reese is selling, I give him credit for putting his message out there. If you have the time and want to hear some good, non-political, speculation give it a read.

not a master work, but good read Have you listened to any of Grover Gardners other performances before? How does this one compare? I have, which in my opinion is the best, and that's one reason why I've tried this book Any additional comments? No Peter Diamond or Steven Pinker, but all right. The world needs more optimists, but the author is almost dreaming, in my opinion.