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Steven Kotler's book, Abundance, is in pre-release ordering. Please check it out! e-book's will be available at release.
Congratulations, Steven! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: steven kotler <[hidden email]> Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM Subject: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think To: steven kotler <[hidden email]>
Dear Friends, As many of you may know already, I have a brand new book coming out on February 21st. It's called Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think.
On this one, I have teamed up with X Prize and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis (my inaugural adventure in co-writing) and we are extremely excited about the result.
There's much more details below, but quite simply this is a book about profoundly changing the world at a time when such change is desperately needed. It's about the potential to seriously raise global standards of living over the next two to three decades. Our hope is to try to redirect the global conversation and, to make this a real possibility, we are trying to launch this book with as much anticipation and excitement as possible. This means making the bestsellers lists right out of the gate by pre-selling as many copies as possible. Our goal is 20,000 and we are getting ever closer (some 16,000 copies have already be sold).
I would love your help and yup, you got it, to sweeten the deal we are offering a few incentives.
Pre-ordering the book through our website: www.abundancethebook.com gives you $1200 worth of bonus gifts—
Also: Tell your friends about Abundance on Facebook, Twitter, or by email: To thank you, Peter's offering a ticket on a zero-gravity flight (http://www.gozerog.com) and a seat to SU’s 4-day Executive Program, worth $5,000 each. Please visit: www.abundancethebook.com/tell-a-friend for more information. Lastly, take a sneak peak at the book and share your reactions: Visit http://www.abundancethebook.com/su to download your exclusive copy of the first chapter of Abundance. Then, please share your thoughts about Abundance by recording a short video on your phone or computer, and upload it to:http://www.abundancethebook.com/video. Thank you for all the support! Steven Here's what some of our early supporters are saying about Abundance
“At a moment when our world faces multiple crises and is awash in pessimism, Abundance redirects the conversation, spotlighting scientific innovators working to improve people's lives around the world. The result is more than a portrait of brilliant minds - it's a reminder of the infinite possibilities for doing good when we tap into our own empathy and wisdom.”—Arianna Huffington, CEO, Huffington Post “This brilliant must-read book provides the key to the coming era of abundance replacing eons of scarcity, a powerful antidote to today’s malaise and pessimism.”—Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author and futurist, author of The Singularity is Near "Now that human beings communicate so easily, I suspect that nothing can stop the inevitable torrent of new technologies, new ideas and new arrangements that will transform the lives of our children. Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler give us a blinding glimpse of the innovations that are coming our way — and that they are helping to create. This is a vital book."—Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist “Comprehensively sampled here are a hell of a lot of the profound innovations going on to improve the human condition. Every breakthrough helps empower others, and so they aggregate into a trend you can count on.”—Stewart Brand, author, Whole Earth Discipline “Diamandis and Kotler challenge us all to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Innovative small teams are now empowered to accomplish what only governments and large corporations could once achieve. The result is nothing less than the most transformative and thrilling period in human history.”––Timothy Ferriss, #1 NY Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek “Today, philanthropists, innovators and passionate entrepreneurs are more empowered than ever before to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Abundance chronicles many of these stories and the emerging tools driving us towards an age of abundance. This is an audacious and powerful read!”—Jeff Skoll “Diamandis and Kotler do a masterful job of explaining why we are at the start of a new era of radically increasing standards of living throughout the world. Abundance is essential reading for anyone looking for a better tomorrow.”—Elon Musk, CEO, SpaceX, CEO, Tesla Motors, Founder, PayPal “Abundance provides proof that the proper combination of technology, people and capital can meet any grand challenge.”—Sir Richard Branson, Chairman of the Virgin Group For plenty more information about the book, please check out our website: www.abundancethebook.com or check see the additional resources below. But first, before you get there,
And here's a few early reviews: --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... [hidden email] <[hidden email]> 624 Agua Fria, Santa Fe, NM 87501 office: 505.995.0206 mobile: 505.577.5828 redfish.com | sfcomplex.org | simtable.com | ambientpixel.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Stephen Guerin <[hidden email]> wrote:
Steven Kotler's book, Abundance, is in pre-release ordering. Please check it out! e-book's will be available at release. Any chance we could have a talk on the ideas in the book? Either view a video, have an author drop by, do a book-read and chat?
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I am pretty sure Kotler would agree to a reading, a public talk,
etc. to publicize. I like Kotler's style and perspective in general
but teaming up with Diamandis was killer. I disagree with a lot of
their assumptions and their conclusions but like the general ideas
they espouse and the tone as an antidote to our modern cynicism
about the past, present and future.
I hugely disagree with much of the Kurzweillian Utopic Singularity but like the Kotler/Diamandis variation a bit more. Kotler and I have bandied about quite a bit on his perspectives on Abundance and what it means for the future... and in fact, it informs my opinions/position on the topic of "Will to Power" in the last mailing... I've already pinged him about when good timing for a talk/reading at SFx would be appropriate. We'll see! - Steve
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Abundance was discussed today on PBS's On Point:
Its interesting that much of the conversation was on tech/science and innovation. But it seems to me the big challenge is in the humanities and social sciences. How do we stop destruction of each other and begin to understand each other.
There is a tech/sci area that may help: Computational Social Science. Scott Page (online course) has an interesting statement in his Decision Theory section. Not only can DT help you understand how to make better decisions, but it can help you deconstruct other people's decision process. This is hugely useful in negotiation and diplomacy.
Has anyone here read Abundance? If so, does it address peace and understanding? Diplomacy?
-- Owen
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
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"Abundance" is on my night table, Owen, but I haven't a very clear idea of when I'll get to it.
Pamela On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Abundance was discussed today on PBS's On Point: ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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