A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future. We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of innovation is needed.
On the Brink of Utopia, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that--a new and coherent framework for fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their "Innovation Leap Paradigm," they present seven steps in seven chapters and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic, and cultural environments foster radical innovation?
The authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real problems, anywhere from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within months for any emerging virus, where green energy will be too cheap to meter and aerial carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at scale. Offering a new perspective on innovation that centers not just American readers but also readers from all over the world,
On the Brink of Utopia is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster innovation leaps that maximize the well-being of the greatest number of people.
一個全新且一致的框架，用以促進我們迫切需要的突破性創新，以應對我們共同的未來。
我們生活在一個比我們想像中更不具創新性的時代。儘管在某些領域取得了重大技術進展，但我們仍面臨著巨大的未解挑戰。需要對創新文化進行根本性的轉變。《邊緣烏托邦》（On the Brink of Utopia），由作者Thomas Ramge和Rafael Laguna de la Vera撰寫，並由諾貝爾獎得主Stefan Hell撰寫前言，正是提供了這樣一個全新且一致的框架，以促進人類進步的突破性創新。在他們的「創新飛躍範式」中，他們在七個章節中提出七個步驟，並回答三個簡單的問題：哪些重大挑戰需要解決？誰能實現技術飛躍？最後，什麼樣的政治、經濟和文化環境能促進激進創新？
作者描繪了一個未來，科技將解決實際問題，從氣候變遷和飢餓到肥胖和月經疼痛。他們想像一個未來，生物技術專家能夠在幾個月內開發出針對任何新興病毒的有效藥物，綠色能源將便宜到無法計量，空氣中的碳能夠大規模轉化為有價值的商品。《邊緣烏托邦》提供了一個全新的創新視角，不僅關注美國讀者，還包括來自世界各地的讀者，是一本充滿希望和遠見的書，重新想像創新者、公民、政府和金融市場的角色，以促進能夠最大化大多數人福祉的創新飛躍。
Thomas Ramge has published about twenty books on technology, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. His essays and long-reads have appeared in
MIT Sloan Management Review, the
Economist,
Harvard Business Review, and
Foreign Affairs, among others. He is an associated member of the Einstein Center for Digital Future and Alumni Senior Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.
Rafael Laguna de la Vera is the founding director of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND). At sixteen, he founded his first start-up, Elephant Software. Laguna is a visiting professor at several universities and is a cofounding partner of CODE University of Applied Sciences.
托馬斯·拉姆基（Thomas Ramge）已出版約二十本有關科技的書籍，這些書籍已被翻譯成超過二十種語言。他的文章和長篇報導曾出現在《麻省理工學院斯隆管理評論》（MIT Sloan Management Review）、《經濟學人》（The Economist）、《哈佛商業評論》（Harvard Business Review）以及《外交事務》（Foreign Affairs）等刊物中。他是愛因斯坦數位未來中心（Einstein Center for Digital Future）的聯合成員，並擔任魏岑鮑姆網絡社會研究所（Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society）的校友高級研究員。
拉斐爾·拉古納·德拉維拉（Rafael Laguna de la Vera）是聯邦顛覆性創新機構（Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, SPRIND）的創始主任。在十六歲時，他創立了自己的第一家初創公司——大象軟體（Elephant Software）。拉古納是多所大學的客座教授，也是應用科學CODE大學的共同創辦夥伴。
