Eco Tech

The book is a seminal contribution from a leading futurist who, over the past three decades, has explored each of the most disruptive forces shaping our world today, including emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, venture investments, and industrial manufacturing.

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Trond Arne Undheim is a futurist, scholar, podcaster, and venture partner, and an expert on the evolution of technology and society. He is a research scholar in Global Systemic Risk, Innovation, and Policy at the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI) at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University. He is also a venture partner at Antler, and a cofounder of technology foresight consulting firm Yegii. Formerly with Tulip Interfaces, Hitachi Ventures, MIT, WPP, Oracle, and the EU, he is the co-author (with Natan Linder) of Augmented Lean (2022), and is the author of Health Tech (2021), Future Tech (2021), Pandemic Aftermath (2020), Disruption Games (2020), and Leadership From Below (2008). He hosts the Futurized podcast and is a Forbes columnist in manufacturing. Trond's work has featured in a variety of business, industrial, and mainstream media, including The Boston Globe, NPR's Cognoscenti, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, IndustryWeek, and MIT News. He holds a Ph.D. on the future of work and artificial intelligence and is based between Wellesley, MA, and Palo Alto, CA.

Inhalt

PART 1 The future

1 Scenarios 2050

2 A regenerative investment framework

PART 2 The past

3 Insufficient non-financial commitments

4 The state of play in eco-investments

5 From deep ecology via industrial ecology to the regeneration fallacy

6 Failures of dominant actors

PART 3 Scaling challenges

7 Re-centralizing the self as an environmental agent

8 Energy is not the issue

9 Which game changers really matter?

10 Is gigascale the ideal?

11 Eco-flavors: Corporate social responsibility, eco-efficiency, and carbon accounting

12 Carbon capture illusions

PART 4 Solutions

13 Eco-effective commandments

14 Good future directions

15 Conclusion: The eco-efficient past, our eco-effective present, and regenerative futures