#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.

Out Of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World 基本信息 Author: Kevin Kelly Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (14 April 1995) Language: English ISBN-10: 0201483408 ISBN-13: 978-0201483406 Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 3 x 23.4 cm 内容简述 用最科学的方法，阐释关于生命未来和社会新秩序，一语道破人类最终的命运和结局。 Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. 《失控》成书于1994年，作者是《连线》杂志的创始主编凯文 凯利。这本书所记述的，是他对当时科技、社会和经济最前沿的一次漫游，以及借此所窥得的未来图景。书中提到并且今天正在兴起或大热的概念包括：大众智慧、云计算、物联网、虚