{"product_id":"on-the-brink-of-utopia-reinventing-innovation-to-solve-the-worlds-largest-problems-9780262546485","title":"On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of innovation is needed. \u003ci\u003eOn the Brink of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that--a new and coherent framework for fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their \"Innovation Leap Paradigm,\" they present seven steps in seven chapters and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic, and cultural environments foster radical innovation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real problems, anywhere from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within months for any emerging virus, where green energy will be too cheap to meter and aerial carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at scale. Offering a new perspective on innovation that centers not just American readers but also readers from all over the world, \u003ci\u003eOn the Brink of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster innovation leaps that maximize the well-being of the greatest number of people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Ramge has published about twenty books on technology, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. His essays and long-reads have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMIT Sloan Management Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He is an associated member of the Einstein Center for Digital Future and Alumni Senior Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRafael Laguna de la Vera is the founding director of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND). At sixteen, he founded his first start-up, Elephant Software. Laguna is a visiting professor at several universities and is a cofounding partner of CODE University of Applied Sciences.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487760912658,"sku":"9780262546485","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58026795-ab93-4210-9239-f9af5fe83e10.jpg?v=1730453189","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-brink-of-utopia-reinventing-innovation-to-solve-the-worlds-largest-problems-9780262546485","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}