Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years for businesses, governments, and the global community and how we can navigate them. While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clintons Senior Advisor on Innovation, he traveled to forty-one countries. He visited some of the toughest places in the world from refugee camps of Congo to Syrian war zones. From phone-charger stands in eastern Congo to Rs next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including cybercrime and cyber security, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money, payments, and markets.