

Augmented
Life in The Smart Lane
Author: Brett King, Andy Lark, Alex Lightman, JP Rangaswami
Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/15/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Computers, Social Science, Future Studies, Technology & Engineering, Social Aspects
Synopsis
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 will 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, it is a story about how you will live your life in a world that will change more in the next twenty years than it has in the last 250 years. Are you ready to adapt? Because if history proves anything, you don't have much of a choice.