Hop, Skip, Go

John Rossant is Founder and Chairman of the NewCities Foundation, a major global non-profit network devoted to improving the quality of life and work in twenty-first century cities. He is also CEO of CoMotion, Inc. — an events and media platform focusing on the mobility revolution and organiser of the well-known CoMotion LA conference on the future of mobility in Los Angeles every November. Rossant had previously been responsible for the production of some of the world’s most prestigious international conferences, such as the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He lives in Los Angeles.Stephen Baker is author of five books, including The Numerati, Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, and a dystopian novel, The Boost. For 10 years, he was a senior technology writer for BusinessWeek, in Paris and New York. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

‘The automobile era is giving way to a new form of networked mobility, driven by digital technology but involving everything from new forms of transportation and electric, driverless vehicle to bicycles and our two feet. In this engaging and important book, Rossant and Baker tell the eye-opening story of this mobility revolution and what it means for our society, our planet, and each and everyone one of us.’-Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class‘Mobility is about us: enabling billions of people on the move with a new promise for freedom and choice. John Rossant and Stephen Baker tell us stories of 3D printed cars assembled by robots, accessible at your fingertips through ubiquitous apps and moving autonomously guided by networked devices. Mobility is the Killer App for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.’-Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum‘How we live in cities – how we experience cities – is a direct reflection of how we move around. In fact, a city’s very identity is intimately connected to transportation — from the Paris Metro and London’s double-deckers and black cabs, to the freeways of Los Angeles. Hop, Skip, Go paints an extraordinary portrait of the profound revolution underway in mobility – and the dramatic impacts this will have on the 21st century city.’-Daniel Libeskind, architect