Drowning in Potential: How American Society Can Survive Digital Technology
by Rod Wallace
In his provocative new book, Drowning in Potential: How American Society Can Survive Digital Technology, Rod Wallace,
The same powerful technology that promises solutions to our many problems is unleashing devastating consequences across American culture, government, and economy. With groundbreaking insights, Wallace provides strategies and tools for overcoming society’s most pressing issues while creating value.
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PRAISE FOR DROWNING IN POTENTIAL
In this immensely impressive and important
—Grady Harp, San Francisco Review of Books
Drowning in Potential offers a new way to solve problems in our organizations. In today’s business climate, it’s vital for leaders to unpack complexity in the quest for profit. Wallace’s tools, insights, and strategies for thinking holistically are backed by solid research and compelling stories, inviting us all to raise the bar for the future of leadership.
—Jonathan Raymond, Author of Good Authority and CEO of Refound
For today’s leaders, Drowning in Potential is critical reading. . . [Wallace’s] insights provide clarity about exactly where and how things are breaking down– as well as delivering strategies and tools for overcoming today’s challenges.
As with Wallace’s other work that I’ve known, I’m curious to dig deeper into the topics he raises. Wallace’s insights, tools, and strategies are key to both helping me earn
—Daan Vriens, CEO Baywa Agrar & Trade
DROWNING IN POTENTIAL: AN OVERVIEW
In Drowning in Potential, Wallace explores the stark contrast between digital technology’s potential and failures in America today. American business and society have been transformed by digital technology, with spectacular benefits. So why is society suffering from such pressing issues?
• With smartphones, our loved ones are only a click away—yet chronic loneliness is at an all-time high.
• On the internet, citizens can track politicians’ voting and spending, along with the resulting national debt—yet politicians have spent the past 35 years inflating America’s first massive, peacetime government debt.
• Thanks to computers and robots, we’re reinventing healthcare—yet American life expectancy is the shortest in the developed world—and getting shorter.
Drowning in Potential provides a probing investigation into digital technology’s unintended consequences. This groundbreaking book offers insights, strategies, and tools for overcoming American society’s most pressing issues. In six chapters, Wallace’s vision is clearly presented through compelling stories supported by in-depth-analysis and more than 60 diagrams and illustrations.
• What are the side effects of digital technology?
• How have some societies successfully overcome the unintended consequences of new technologies, when most have not?
• How can we redesign our approaches to leadership and collaboration so we can overcome the fallout from digital technology?
In this insightful book, Wallace weaves his unique perspective into a thought-provoking bird’s eye view of American society today and of a future society in which our children might prosper.
Learn why we are Drowning in Potential and how to meaningfully improve society—while benefiting yourself. This is essential reading for business leaders and fans of Yuval Harari, Ray Kurzweil, Hal Varian, and Erik Brynjolfsson.
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