Ebook: Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization

What human civilization needs more than anything is not greater IQ or EQ, but TQ: technology quotient.

In Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, husband-and wife team Ayesha & Parag Khanna explore the frontier of the information revolution: The Hybrid Age. In this era of disruptive technologies, accelerating change, and deep anxiety about the future, the Khannas explain how the “balance of innovation” has superseded the military “balance of power” as a measure of national potential, and provide a global tour of how the smartest countries, cities, and companies are harnessing new technologies to gain an edge. Each of us also needs better TQ to adapt to a future in which robots are normal social actors in our lives, healthcare becomes a vehicle for physical enhancement, academic pedigree dissolves in a global skills market, and virtual currencies enable tax-free transactions. Whether the future is a dystopian global class struggle over technology or a Pax Technologica of transparency, access and equity will depend on spreading TQ above all else.