WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

Tim O’Reilly has been at the cutting edge of the Internet since it went commercial. * New York Times *A punchy and provocative book … What’s The Future is an insightful and heartfelt plea, daring us to reimagine a better economy and society … A jaunty read with a compelling narrative of how technology interweaves with the real world. * Financial Times *O’Reilly’s ability to quickly identify nascent trends is unparalleled. * Wired *Silicon Valley’s leading intellectual. * Inc. *One of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age. * Observer *Tech’s most valuable teacher. * Forbes *The ultimate tech industry thought leader. * Scientific American *The man who can really can make a whole industry happen. – Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of GoogleIf people want ideas about the future, they should look to O’Reilly to point them out. * Newsweek *For anyone who wants to know how to prepare for the future – and how we might shape that future in ways that broadly benefit society, not just technological or entrepreneurial elites – WTF? is an indispensable guide. – Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

Tim O’Reilly is widely recognised as the leading thinker of Silicon Valley. As the founder and CEO of the publishing company O’Reilly Media, he has become famous for spotting technology with world-shaking potential - from launching the world’s first commercial website in 1993, via popularising terms like ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘OpenSource’ in the early 2000s, to advising the White House on its tech policies over the last decade. O’Reilly is also a partner of the venture capital firm O’Reilly AlphaTech, and sits on the boards of Maker Media, Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics and PopVox. He lives in Oakland, California.

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