Steven Kotler

In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: 'We are as gods - and we might as well get good at it.' Half a century later, that prophecy has come true. We can rewrite genes, edit embryos, build artificial minds, extend life, and terraform worlds. The old miracles - omniscience, omnipresence, even resurrection - are becoming standard operating procedure. But the real question isn't whether humanity can play god. It's whether we can do it wisely. In this book, the bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold return with a sweeping exploration of our species' next great transformation. Blending hard science with vivid storytelling, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler chart humanity's ascent from scarcity to superabundance - and the psychological, ethical, and existential challenges that come with it. Across breakthroughs in AI, robotics, genetics, longevity, and consciousness research, they reveal a paradox at the heart of progress: as our external power expands, our inner resilience must evolve to match. Abundance without meaning leads to collapse. Intelligence without wisdom leads to extinction. To thrive in a world of everything, everywhere, all the time, we must learn to wield our godlike powers with humility, creativity, and flow. Equal parts warning and invitation, We Are As Gods is a map for flourishing in the exponential century. Because the future won't be built by those who fear what's coming, but by those who know how to turn chaos into creation. Abundance is here. Are you ready?

Melyek az életkorral járó szuperképességek, és hogyan aknázhatjuk ki őket? Hogyan mozgósíthatjuk az öt nagy belső motiváló tényezőt kiégés ellen? Mit jelent a "használod vagy elveszíted" elve, és mi köze Stradivari hegedűihez? A legújabb kutatások szerint nem törvényszerű, hogy szellemi és fizikai képességeink visszafordíthatatlan hanyatlásnak indulnak az idő múlásával. Sőt, agyunk biológiai változásainak köszönhetően az életkor előrehaladtával a 21. században kulcsfontosságú szuperképességekre tehetünk szert, és a korábbinál kiemelkedőbb teljesítményt nyújthatunk. Ehhez azonban meg kell változtatnunk az öregedéssel kapcsolatos szemléletmódunkat, és folyamatosan új kihívások elé kell állítanunk magunkat. Steven Kotler, az emberi teljesítmény és a flow szakértője önmagán teszteli, hogyan is működik mindez a gyakorlatban, amikor 53 évesen belevág a freestyle síelésbe. Olvasmányos és rendkívül szórakoztató könyvében nemcsak kalandjait és kihívásait dokumentálja, hanem azt is megmutatja, hogy a határainkat átlépve hogyan teljesíthetjük ki életünket, és érhetünk el csúcsteljesítményt - minden életkorban.

Vývoj technológií postupuje oveľa rýchlejšie, než sme si vedeli predstaviť. Za posledné desaťročie sme dosiahli taký technologický pokrok a vyprodukovali toľko bohatstva, aké sa ľudstvu nepodarilo za sto rokov. Umelá inteligencia, lietajúce autá, virtuálna realita, rozšírené možnosti 3D tlače, nanorobotika... V tieni veľkolepého rozvoja však stojí množstvo dôležitých a nezodpovedaných otázok. Ako spájanie technológií ovplyvní podobu sveta, celej spoločnosti a nás samotných? Dielo dvojice bestsellerových autorov pôsobivo a do hĺbky zobrazuje budúcnosť, ktorá už doslova klope na dvere. A v istom zmysle sa deje už teraz. No je to cesta, ktorou chceme naozaj kráčať? Z anglického originálu The Future is Faster Than You Think (Simon & Schuster, New York 2020) preložil Martin Katuščák.

AKO DOSIAHNUŤ NEMOŽNÉ A EŠTE NIEČO NAVYŠE Čo je potrebné na to, aby sme dosiahli nemožné a dokázali prekonať všetky prekážky, ale aj vlastné očakávania? Alebo si rovno splnili najväčšie sny a premenili ich na skutočnosť? Lebo v skutočnosti dokážeme oveľa viac, ako si myslíme. Steven Kotler patrí medzi najpredávanejších autorov kníh s tematikou maximálneho výkonu. Je riaditeľ spoločnosti Flow Research, ktorá sa snaží porozumieť špičkovým výkonom, a svoje poznatky využíva na školenie jednotlivcov a organizácií, ako tento výkon dosiahnuť. Steven Kotler v tejto knihe prezrádza tajomstvá výkonov tých najlepších športovcov, umelcov, vedcov či ľudí na vysokých pracovných pozíciách, ktorí zmenili vnímanie nemožného a učia nás, ako prekonať svoje limity a splniť si sny, ktoré považujeme za nedosiahnuteľné. Vo svojich postupoch sa opiera o poznatky z neurovedy, ktoré získal vo svojom viac ako 20-ročnom výskume. Kniha Dosiahni nemožné ponúka inšpiratívne čítanie, v ktorom sa autor delí o svoje životné skúsenosti, ako zo seba dostať maximum. Ak mierite ku hviezdam, neváhajte a začítajte sa. A nepotrebujete k tomu ani skafander..

Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers-athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more-who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements? We are capable of so much more than we know-that's the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building upon cutting-edge neuroscience and over twenty years of research, bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, Steven Kotler lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement. If you want to aim high, here is the playbook to make it happen! Inspirational and aspirational, pragmatic and accessible, The Art of Impossible is a life-changing experience disguised as a how-to manual for peak performance that anyone can use to shoot for the stars . . . space-suit, not included.

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today's legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet? Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives-transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance-taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it. As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

Mi történik, ha a mesterséges intelligencia vagy a virtuális valóság betör a 3D nyomtatás, illetve a robotika világába? Miképpen formálják át az egymást erősítő technológiák napjaink vezető iparágait? Milyen változások várhatók a táplálkozás, a közigazgatás és a környezetvédelem területén? A technológia minden elképzelést felülmúló sebességgel fejlődik, és ennek köszönhetően a következő évtizedben soha nem tapasztalt átalakulás várható. Peter H. Diamandis jövőkutató és Steven Kotler tudományos író megvizsgálják, hogyan befolyásolják az exponenciálisan gyorsuló technológiai fejlődés újabb hullámai hétköznapi életünket és társadalmunk működését. A szerzőpáros a technológiai konvergencia tudományát kutatva a legkülönfélébb területek – kereskedelem, oktatás, egészségügy és pénzügy – újjászületését vázolja fel. A jövő gyorsabban itt lesz, mint gondolnánk lebilincselő olvasmány, amely a küszöbön álló fantasztikus jövőnkbe enged bepillantást.

A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before. The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two draws on insights from billionaires such as Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos and reveals their entrepreneurial secrets. Finally, Bold closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities-armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before. The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two draws on insights from billionaires such as Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos and reveals their entrepreneurial secrets. Finally, Bold closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities-armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

TheNew York Timesbestselling "manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world's most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom" (The Wall Street Journal). Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing-fast. InAbundance, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every person on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. Breaking down human needs by category-water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom-Diamandis and Kotler introduce us to innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in each area. "Not only isAbundancea riveting page-turner...but it's a book that gives us a future worth fighting for. And even more than that, it shows us our place in that fight" (The Christian Science Monitor).