Table of Contents
Foreword xvii
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Prologue: The Field of Polymath Dreams xxxvii
PART I SPREZZATURA: THE ART OF MAKING THE COMPLEX LOOK EASY 1
CHAPTER 1 The New Polymath: In an Age of "Wicked Problems" and Technology Abundance 3
CHAPTER 2 Modern-Day Dark Ages: So Much Stagnation 17
CHAPTER 3 Polymath Profile #1: General Electric 31
PART II THE R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E FRAMEWORK: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE NEW POLYMATH 51
CHAPTER 4 Residence: Better Technologically Equipped Than the Offi ce 53
CHAPTER 5 Exotics: Innovation from Left Field 67
CHAPTER 6 Polymath Profile #2: Cognizant 81
CHAPTER 7 Networks: Bluetooth to Broadband 89
CHAPTER 8 Polymath Profile #3: Plantronics 107
CHAPTER 9 Arsonists: And Other Disruptors 113
CHAPTER 10 Polymath Profile #4: W. R. Hambrecht 129
CHAPTER 11 Interfaces: For All Our Senses 137
CHAPTER 12 Sustainability: Delivering to Both the Green and Gold Agendas 151
CHAPTER 13 Polymath Profile #5: Kleiner Perkins Cleantech 165
CHAPTER 14 Singularity: Human–Machine Convergence 175
CHAPTER 15 Analytics: Spreadsheets, Search, and Semantics 191
CHAPTER 16 Polymath Profile #6: National Hurricane Center 205
CHAPTER 17 Networks Again: Communities, Crowds, Contracts, and Collaboration 213
CHAPTER 18 Clouds: Technology-as-a-Service 233
CHAPTER 19 Polymath Profile #7: salesforce.com 251
CHAPTER 20 Ethics: In an Age of Cyberwar and Cloning 257
PART III GROOMING YOUR OWN NEW POLYMATH 275
CHAPTER 21 Polymath Profile #8: BP CTO 277
CHAPTER 22 Moon Shots for Budding Polymaths 295
Epilogue: The Beginner's Mind 303
Notes 307
About the Author 325
Index 327
