Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: Summary Review
This is a summary review of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper containing key details about the book.
What is Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper About?
"Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper" by Robert Bryce is a book that explores the ways in which technology and innovation are leading to a world that is smaller, faster, lighter, denser, and cheaper. The book takes a look at various industries, such as energy, transportation, and communication, and shows how advances in technology are driving down costs and increasing efficiency.
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper provides 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, the author shows how we have, for centuries, been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions to our problems.
Summary Points & Takeaways from Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
Some key summary points and takeaways from the book include:
* Innovation is the key to a smaller, faster, lighter, denser, and cheaper world.
* Technology has the power to change the world in profound ways, and it is happening faster than many people realize.
* The increasing efficiency of technology is leading to lower costs and higher productivity, which can be seen in many industries, from energy to transportation.
* The technological progress of the past several decades has been driven by improvements in materials, manufacturing processes, and computing power, among other factors.
* The impact of these advances is being felt in all areas of life, from the way we work and communicate, to the way we live and play.
* Companies and individuals who are open to new ideas and are willing to embrace change will be the ones who will benefit most from these technological advances.
Who is the author of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper?
Robert Bryce is an American author and journalist in Austin, Texas. His articles on energy, politics, and other topics have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Real Clear Energy, Counterpunch, and National Review.
Book details
- Print length: 400 pages
- Genre: Business, Nonfiction, Economics
What are the chapters in Smaller Faster Lighter Denser?
Chapter 1 Panama: Digging a Faster Cheaper Way to Travel
Chapter 2 The Trend Toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
Chapter 3 Never Have So Many Lived So Well
Chapter 4 Back to the Past: The Push for "Degrowth"
Chapter 5 Angstroms and Attoseconds
Chapter 6 How Our Quest for Faster Drives Innovation
Chapter 7 Faster Lighter Doper
Chapter 8 The Engines of the Economy
Chapter 9 From ENIAC to iCloud: Smaller Faster Computing
Chapter 10 From LP to iPod
Chapter 11 From Kublai Khan to M-PESA
Chapter 12 Density and the Wealth of Cities
Chapter 13 Denser Cheaper Food Production
Chapter 14 The Faster the Bits, the Freer the People
Chapter 15 From Monks to MOOCs: Faster Cheaper Education
Chapter 16 Smaller Faster Cheaper Medicine
Chapter 17 The Faster the (Drill) Bits, the Cheaper the Energy
Chapter 18 The Tyranny of Density
Chapter 19 Smaller Faster and the Coal Question
Chapter 20 Getting Energy Policy Right
Chapter 21 Climate Change Requires N2N (N2N is SFLDC)
Chapter 22 SX Smaller Faster: Why the United States Will Dominate the Smaller Faster Future
What do critics say?
Here's what one of the prominent reviewers had to say about the book: "Don't be misled by Robert Bryce's very breezy style. His new book makes important and positive observations about the world's energy future. You don't have to agree with every one of his attitudes or conclusions to hope that the reporting and arguments in the book are taken seriously, and that the innovators and start-ups he vividly describes get the support they need.” — James Fallows
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Chief Editor
Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
