Invent Now: The Next Leap in Moonshots - Hardcover

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SALIMA BHIMANI, PhD, is a moonshot architect, entrepreneur, and builder who partners with CEOs, global institutions, and bold innovators to unlock world-changing solutions and opportunities at scale.
As Alphabet's (Google) first Chief Strategist for Responsible Technology, Business, and Leaders, she worked alongside pioneers shaping ventures including Waymo, DeepMind, Wing, and Google X.
Dr. Bhimani co-founded a drone detection venture and today serves as CEO of 10X Responsible Tech and Senior Fellow at AI 2030. Drawing on more than 25 years spanning industry, government, education, nonprofits, and startups, she has contributed to global thinking on AI, society, and the future of work alongside figures from NASA, the United Nations, and international governments.
In Invent Now, Dr. Bhimani challenges us to stop wasting global genius―and start unlocking the presently unimaginable.

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Decoding how moonshots are built―and who gets to build them.

What if you could build ecosystem-scale solutions that unlock entirely new realities for millions of people?

Dr. Salima Bhimani has firsthand experience with moonshots of extraordinary ambition. As Alphabet’s (Google) first Chief Strategist for Responsible Technology, Business, and Leaders, she helped shape billion-dollar bets―companies like Waymo, Wing, DeepMind, and Google X. Inside the epicenter of innovation, she lived both the brilliance and the limitations of how world-changing solutions are created.

For too long, we have built technological solutions for the world, rather than with the world. We have limited the scale of opportunity, wasted global genius, and shrunk what technology can help us achieve.

Invent Now provokes a paradigm shift: The Third Space. It’s an invitation to build the next generation of moonshots, tapping into the vast, unseen ecosystems and globally distributed human genius.

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The Bridge vs. The Car: Why the Bottleneck is Gone

What gives Invent Now its urgency is the technological trajectory we are on, colliding with the shifting dynamics of our world. AI is collapsing both the cost and complexity of building sophisticated systems. Think of frontier AI infrastructure as a massive bridge, and the application as a car that anyone can now assemble on top of it.

The people long locked out of moonshot building by scarce engineering talent, proprietary code, and billion-dollar R&D budgets are no longer bound by those constraints. The question has shifted from “Can we build it?” to “Do we have the vision, the ecosystem intelligence, and the audacity to discover previously unseen opportunities and needs?”

Step Into the Dojo. Unlock New Realities.

More than a book to read, Invent Now invites you to enter the Moonshot Dojo―a space to actively spar with how to become a moonshot maker. Through seven critical capacities, readers develop the instincts, practices, and ecosystem intelligence required to build what others cannot yet see.

Inside the Dojo, readers will spar with:

• Defiance of Inherited Assumptions: See how Iceland’s geothermal bet, the Open Insulin Project, and SELCO Solar illustrate how the most durable innovations begin by refusing standard market logic.
• The $100K Moonshot: A profound thought experiment revealing how collapsing technology costs mean ecosystem-scale moonshots can now be triggered for $100K rather than $10M.
• Creative Friction: End-of-chapter Dojo challenges designed to spark direct friction with your own reflexes toward tech, invention and building solutions.
• Again and again readers are asked: “How many lives can you change?”―and shown that the answer, for people outside the traditional innovation circles, is far larger than they’ve been told.

Take the Next Leap

This is not a playbook for building an app or launching an incremental product. It is a provocation to build ecosystem-level moonshots that rewire flows of value and human flourishing―and quite possibly the trajectory of the world. Invent Now activates the precise audacity, leadership, and actionable tools required to turn unprecedented opportunities into global realities.

This book is written for anyone ready to build the future with technology―including those who never thought they could. From inventors and creatives to technologists seeking to expand their impact, entrepreneurs moving from insight to building, and leaders across industry and sectors. It’s time to take the next leap.