Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane

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Description

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250 year long cycle of disruption that has regularly changed the way we live, the way we work and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, on the other hand, promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts and changes that are unparalleled. At the same time as consumers today are camping outside of an Apple store waiting to be one of the most first to score a new Apple Watch or iPhone, the next generation of wearables will be capable of predict if we’re likely to have a heart attack and recommend a course of action. We watch news of Google’s self-driving cars, but don’t likely realize this means progressive cities must ban human drives in the next decade because us humans are too risky.

Following on from the Industrial or Machine Age, the Space Age and the Digital Age, the Augmented Age will be based on four key disruptive themes – Artificial Intelligence, Experience Design, Smart Infrastructure, and HealthTech. Historically the previous ‘ages’ bought significant disruption and changes, but on a net basis jobs were created, wealth was enhanced, and the health and security of society improved. What’s going to the Augmented Age bring? Will robots take our jobs, and AI’s subsume us as inferior intelligences, or will this usher in a new age of abundance?

Augmented is a book on future history, but more than that, this is a story about how you’ll live your life in a world that will change more in the next 20 years than it has in the last 250 years. Are you ready to adapt? Because if history proves anything, you wouldn’t have much of a choice.


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