Zero To One - A Comprehensive Summary Chapter 1: Predicting the Future We must look into the future. We achieve this by asking, "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Answers to this question typically contemplate the present. The good answers to this question come as close as we can get to predicting the future. When we envision the future, we hope for progress. These desires divide into two categories: horizontal or extensive progress, and vertical or intensive progress. Horizontal progress imitates existing things, and it is very easy to imagine. Globalization falls into the horizontal category, as innovations and practices enter new areas rather than those areas developing something entire new. Vertical progress creates new things, or 0 to 1 progress; and it is much harder to imagine. Technological advances of virtually every type fit the vertical category. In answering the question of important truth, many believe globalization will define the future. Globalization but spreads technology. With its biased and short-sighted view, globalization falters without technological advances. Technology's traditional development shapes our view of it. Its development never occurred automatically. Most prehistoric peoples survived through farming and seizing resources, and... To be continued... Here is a Preview of What You Will Get: ⁃ A Full Book Summary ⁃ An Analysis ⁃ Fun quizzes ⁃ Quiz Answers ⁃ Etc. Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.
