Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible pace. The Human Genome Project took eleven years and $2.7 billion dollars to complete. Today, it would take two days to finish, and cost less than getting a pizza delivered. It is estimated that forty percent of the current Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist by 2025. In 2005, half a billion devices were connected to the Internet. By 2030, that number will reach one trillion. The traditional paradigms of how we live, learn, and invest are shifting under our feet. Investment guru Ric Edelman has seen the future, and he explains how smart investors can adapt and thrive in today's changing marketplace. Edelman offers sound, practical investment advice through the lens of recent scientific and technological advancements. He illustrates how discoveries in robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing, solar energy, biotechnology, and medicine will redefine our life expectancies, careers, and retirements. As we live and work longer, Edelman provides clear advice on how to recalibrate the way we save for college, invest during our careers, and plan for retirement.

Foreword / Peter H. Diamandis -- Prologue: Why Yogi Berra was right -- Connecting with each other -- Big data -- Robotics -- Nanotechnology and materials science -- 3D printing -- Medicine and neuroscience -- Energy and environmental systems -- Innovations in education -- The future of leisure and recreation -- Financial services innovation -- Safety and security -- The dark side -- The financial plan you need now for the future you're going to have -- Career planning -- College planning -- Protecting your privacy -- The investment strategy you need for the future -- Where you'll live in the future -- A second home -- Long-term care in the future -- Estate planning for the family of the future -- Epilogue: Welcome to the greatest time of your life -- The other side of money / by Jean Edelman.