- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Texere (Sep 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587991934
- ISBN-13: 978-1587991936
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,863,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Steve Waite looks at the sweep of economic history and nails the big ideas that will create the next revolution. WaiteÂ's done all your homework for you--Kurzweil to Kauffman, Arrow to Arthur, Drexler to Drucker. DonÂ't leave the 20th Century without it.
The stock market is a mystery, one that will probably never be fully understood. Steve Waite, though, has identified a family of disruptive technologies that promise to reshape our entire world--from the stock market to your living room.
Steve WaiteÂ's Quantum Investing is a wonderful book, filled with valuable insights. But most important of all--in this period of doom and gloom--itÂ's a refreshing change, full of optimism and belief in the future. It deserves wide readership.
Waite argues that to understand where the business world is going, and where to find value, it will prove crucial to focus on quantum physics and the industries that will flow from it. In a very timely way, Waite highlights SchumpeterÂ's process of creative destruction with old goods going extinct and new ones coming into existence; and demonstrates the coming importance of intangible asset accounting and complexity theory with its models of self organization.
The stock market is a mystery, one that will probably never be fully understood. Steve Waite, though, has identified a family of disruptive technologies that promise to reshape our entire world--from the stock market to your living room.
Steve WaiteÂ's Quantum Investing is a wonderful book, filled with valuable insights. But most important of all--in this period of doom and gloom--itÂ's a refreshing change, full of optimism and belief in the future. It deserves wide readership.
Waite argues that to understand where the business world is going, and where to find value, it will prove crucial to focus on quantum physics and the industries that will flow from it. In a very timely way, Waite highlights SchumpeterÂ's process of creative destruction with old goods going extinct and new ones coming into existence; and demonstrates the coming importance of intangible asset accounting and complexity theory with its models of self organization.
Book Description
Quantum Investing is a book about todayÂ's ascendant quantum-physics-based industries, such as communications, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Author Stephen Waite makes clear why these areas are the most important investment opportunities today and how these industries will have a profound impact on our economy. Â"Waite nails the big ideas that will create the next revolution. DonÂ't leave the 20th Century without it.Â" - Christopher Meyer, Director, The Cap Gemini Center for Business Innovation
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Quite disappointed. Not an investment book at all.,
This review is from: Quantum Investing (Hardcover)
Though the authors emphasized that the purpose of the book was to pursue what Munger of Bershire Hathaway preached about the "lattice of models" approach to investing that successful investors should read as much as he could on as many diverse subjects as possible, and that development in Quantum physics would bring 2/3 of the existing 30 DJI stocks out of their places in the index in less than 2 decades. this book was far too repetitive and clumsy in elaborating the same idea of the importance of Quantum Physics. The amateur knowledge and so so writing skill of the authors would drive nearly half of the readers to confusion because they would still have close to nothing clue about Quantum Physics, whilst those who know Quantum Physics would be bored to coma. Perhaps the best part of the book was the definition they quoted from Feynman, that it was the description of the behaviour of matter and light in all its details and, in particular, of the happenings on an atomic scale. Besides that, the whole book read like a product of copy and paste here and there from science journals more than anything else. Despite the above, the authors were clever at choosing the right facts and figures. Some astounding items include:- 1. The only original DJI stock left behind after a century was General Electric. In short, this book is far from what the title projects to say. Little is talked about investment at all. The authors could have written a much better book with much fewer words. To make it better, the authors should have written much more on how complexity theory, a branch in Quantum Physics could really help market and investment analysis.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Let's face it folks, this is a deep book.,
By James D Hurd (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Quantum Investing (Hardcover)
Let's face it folks, this is a deep book. Spend some time with it - mull it over. It's not People Magazine. The insight it gives us on who we are, and where we are going as a society and an economy is quite profound. We are living today, and have been living for quite some time, in a world driven by quantum discoveries. Tie the threads together - and realize that we're on a spaceship earth that is moving through the universe in surprising ways. "Quantum Investing" opened my eyes.
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Quantum Investing (Hardcover)
Author Stephen R. Waite is a Wall Street veteran, but despite its title Quantum Investing is not about investing (the few investor-oriented tips are at the end of each chapter and at the book's conclusion). Rather, it is a futurist manifesto, an infectious, heady hodgepodge of science textbook and thought experiment, which reads like a sequel to Future Shock. Waite takes you on a whirlwind tour of quantum theory, which has enabled astounding technological advances (note the glossary of physics terms and the timeline of relevant scientific developments). He assesses the accounting industry as hopelessly out-of-date when it comes to valuing intangible assets, and offers a thought-provoking discussion of the stock market, chaos theory and complex systems. You'll probably be skeptical of - but intrigued by - the discoveries he predicts for the twenty-first century. We from getAbstract recommend this to executives who are interested in a big-picture treatment of the economic evolution, or who are science (or science-fiction) buffs.
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