New Survey asks Participants to Guess When Big Changes will Become Part of their Everyday Lives

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- When will we be able to hail an autonomous robo-taxigrow great-tasting steak from stem cells in a labconnect the human brain to the cloud so you can Google just by thinking?

Significant numbers of Americans are less than optimistic that these capabilities will be possible anytime soon or even in their lifetimes, even though some of these technologies are already available in limited capacities. Authors of the new book, The Future is Faster Than You Think. Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler conducted a survey to determine whether Americans are ready for the technological shifts that are rapidly progressing and, in some cases, already here.

Among the findings:

These views contradict the realitywhich is one of the key takeaways in The Future is Faster Than You Think. The book demonstrates how major technological innovations like flying cars and virtual shopping malls will likely become a reality within the next decade, if not sooner.

"Disruption and democratization of technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality will lead to extraordinary growth and transformation," said Diamandis, who is also founder of several innovative businesses and organizations, including XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University. "These converging technologies will transform every industry and create tremendous opportunity for those who choose to take advantage of it."

For the 10-question survey, the 2,663 total participants were asked to predict when a certain milestone would take placedrones will deliver a McDonald's meal to your home; the average healthy lifespan will increase from mid-70s (today) to 100+ years old. Participants had the option to pick one of the following answers: now, by 2030, by 2040 or not in my lifetime.

"We want what's in this book to serve as a warning shot to business leaders who like many American adults don't realize how fast technology will transform the world we all inhabit," said Kotler, the book's co-author who is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist and founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. "Business leaders and the rest of us can either learn how to ride the tsunami of change or get crushed by it."

For more information about The Future is Faster Than You Think, contact Terri Kayden at 973-850-7310 or tkayden@jconnelly.com.

About The Future is Faster than You ThinkThe Future is Faster Than You Thinkoffers a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next 10 years of rapid disruption. Written by New York Times bestselling authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, The Future is Faster Than You Think explores how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will reinvent every part of our livestransportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food and financetaking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.

About The Future is Faster SurveyA Google survey of U.S.-only users was conducted between Friday, January 17, 2020 through, Monday, January 20, 2020. There were 2,663 total participants who responded to some or all of 10 multiple-choice survey questions in this period. The 10 questions tasked participants to choose whether certain technological advancements would be readily available to them at some point between now and beyond their lifetimes. Participants surveyed were all 18 years of age or older and varied by race/gender.

Contact: Terri Kayden JConnelly973-850-7310tkayden@jconnelly.com

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