FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2012 NEW AMERICA SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW RELEASES BOOK ON ACCLIMATING TO THE

HYBRID AGE Hybrid Reality provides an answer for acclimatization in an age driven by new technologies and accelerating change New America Senior Research Fellow Dr. Parag Khanna and his wife, Ayesha Khanna, provide optimistic and important research on how technology will shape our future in their new book released today. In Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, the husband-and-wife team explains how the technology reshaping our lives today will affect political, economic, and social patterns in the future while countries, cities, and companies are harnessing new technologies to gain an edge. This future is known as the The Hybrid Age, an era where one must adapt to a future in which robots are social norms, healthcare becomes a vehicle for physical enhancement, academic pedigree dissolves in a global skills market, and virtual currencies enable tax-free transactions. Hybrid Reality is a profoundly optimistic book. For all those who fear the future for their children Ayesha and Parag Khanna have given you a hundred reasons for hope, says Peter Schwartz, co-founder of Global Business Network (GBN) and author of The Art of the Long View and Inevitable Surprises. The range of ideas and forces creating new potentials will give the reader a strong foundation for understanding the accelerating change all around us and the tools for navigating an astonishing new world. Dr. Parag Khanna, a senior research fellow with New America's American Strategy Program, is a leading geo-strategist, world traveler, and author. His other international bestsellers include How to Run the World: Charting the Course to the Next Renaissance and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. He was named one of Esquires 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, and one of fifteen individuals featured in WIRED magazines Smart List. To schedule an interview with Dr. Parag Khanna please contact Keeley Franklin at XXX-XXXX.

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