img

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

Robert Bryce

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize re-localize ban the use of modern energy sources and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy Faster computing Lighter vehicles and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity greater liberty and yes better environmental protection.

Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield Bryce shows how we have for centuries been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions to our problems. From the vacuum tube mass-produced fertilizer and the printing press to mobile phones nanotech and advanced drill rigs Bryce demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer freer healthier lives than at any time in human history.

The push toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is happening across multiple sectors. Bryce profiles innovative individuals and companies from long-established ones like Ford and Intel to upstarts like Aquion Energy and Khan Academy. And he zeroes in on the energy industry proving that the future belongs to the high power density sources that can provide the enormous quantities of energy the world demands.

The tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.>

  • Classification : Business, Management & Economics
  • Pub Date : MAR 1, 2016
  • Imprint : Publicaffairs
  • Page Extent : 400
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781610395472
  • Price : INR 1,445
image

Robert Bryce

Robert Bryce is the acclaimed author of five previous books including Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong and Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal New York Times Austin Chronicle Guardian and National Review.

He has given over 300 invited or keynote lectures to groups ranging from the Marine Corps War College to the Sydney Institute and has appeared on dozens of media outlets ranging from Fox News to Al Jazeera. Bryce is also the producer of a new feature-length documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains the World. He lives in Austin Texas with his wife Lorin.

Discover more books

Power Hungry

Robert Bryce

To search by Publisher, Imprint, Category and Subject, please use Advanced Search