Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation Audiobook (Free)

An impassioned defence of improvement and innovation and a disagreement for sociable responsibility from engineer, business innovator and previous CEO of BP Lord John Browne

Today’s unprecedented pace of switch leaves many people wondering what new technology are doing to your lives. Has social media marketing robbed us of our privacy and fed us with fake information? Are the decisions about our health and wellness, security and funds made by computer applications inexplicable and biased? Will these algorithms become therefore complicated about Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation that people can’t control them? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better health care result in an ageing populace which cannot be cared for? Can we provide casing for our ever-growing urban populations? Will we all be terrorised by autonomous drones that may identify and kill us, one at a time? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth’s environment to the advantage of catastrophe?

John Browne argues that people need not and should never place the brakes on technological advance. Civilisation is certainly founded on anatomist innovation; all improvement stems from the human desire to make things and to shape the world around us, resulting in greater freedom, health insurance and wealth for any. Drawing on history, his own encounters and conversations with many of today’s great innovators, he uncovers the basis for any progress and its consequences, both bad and the good. He argues compellingly the same spark that creates each innovation can be used to counter its negative outcomes. Make, Think that, Imagine provides an eloquent blueprint for how we can keep moving towards a brighter future.