{"id":34928,"date":"2017-02-26T19:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T03:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/5-books-the-head-of-mit-media-lab-thinks-you-should-read"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:47:56","slug":"5-books-the-head-of-mit-media-lab-thinks-you-should-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/5-books-the-head-of-mit-media-lab-thinks-you-should-read","title":{"rendered":"5 books the head of MIT Media Lab thinks you should read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-books-the-head-of-mit-media-lab-thinks-you-should-read.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I agree as I have read 3 of the books in the list and all 3 were excellent\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Seventh Sense, Change Agent, and Industries of the Future. I plan to get Wonderland next.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As 2016 winds to a close, Facebook called on <a href=\"https:\/\/media.fb.com\/2016\/12\/19\/global-influencers-share-2016-book-recommendations-for-readtolead\/\">62 global influencers<\/a> to share the books that made the greatest impact on them this year.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and many others shared their favourite reads with the hashtag #ReadtoLead.<\/p>\n<p>One of those influencers is Joi Ito, the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/\">MIT Media Lab<\/a>. Ito picked five titles that should help anyone get a feel for where the future is headed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/joi-ito-favorite-books-of-year-2016-12#\/#deep-work-by-cal-newport-1\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/joi-ito-favorite-books-of-...-newport-1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree as I have read 3 of the books in the list and all 3 were excellent\u201d The Seventh Sense, Change Agent, and Industries of the Future. I plan to get Wonderland next. As 2016 winds to a close, Facebook called on 62 global influencers to share the books that made the greatest impact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48681,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions\/48681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}