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The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250-year- long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, however, promises a level of disruption, behavioural shifts and changes that are unparalleled. While consumers today are camping outside of an Apple store waiting to be one of the first to score a new Apple Watch or iPhone, the next generation of wearables will be able to 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 realise this means progressive cities will have to ban human drivers 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 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 20 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.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	02 mai 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814677585
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	9 Mo

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As a long-time R D project manager in military technology innovations and national security policy, I am deeply impressed by the potential value of Augmented . It has great potential to inform evolving security policy and creative new options, and to prepare government and industry leaders for the emerging future. King, Lightman and their contributors are to be congratulated for their thought-provoking work. The book should be required reading for professionals in the US and international defense and security organisations.
Dr. Christopher Harz , RAND , DARPA , DHS and NATO research analyst and project manager, author of Electric Blue , and co-author of Food Security via Clean Energy .
If you wonder about what your life will look like in 20 years, read this book. Things are about to get real, and Brett and Alex lay it out beautifully in a way that is accurate, easy to understand and only a little bit scary.
Dave Asprey , New York Times Bestselling Author of The Bulletproof Diet
You may think you ve heard all there is to know about the dramatic changes to come in our digital future. Well, prepare to have your mind blown... again. In a crowded field of prognosticators, Brett King stands out for his clearly articulated vision of how technology is changing who we are.
Michael J. Casey , author of The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order
As one of the world s most followed and provocative voices in digital finance, Brett King has once again thrown down the gauntlet. Brett s vision of the future should be required reading for governments, think-tanks, investors, or basically anyone wondering how transformational technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, Bitcoin and gene-editing may impact our society.
Seth Wheeler , former White House advisor on financial services and Brookings Institution guest scholar
Whole industries have been vaporised by technological progress but as Brett King show us, this trend is just getting started. Augmented is your guide to a world in chaos, where each wave of technological innovation collides with several others. Get ready, get smart; read this book.
Robert Tercek , author of Vaporized
We live in a world where software is getting smart enough to automate tasks that only people could do just a few years ago. This is going to radically change the way we educate our children and the way people work in the future. Augmented is a wake-up call for a whole swathe of industries including the accounting profession. If your job can be automated, it probably will be.
Artificial intelligence, embedded experience design and real-time advice will undermine many of the professional services industries that grew rapidly last century. The future is one that is very different and King, Lark, Lightman and Rangaswami are the best guys on the planet to explain how we might get there.
In the next 20 years we ll see professions like accountants, financial advisors, bank tellers and others dramatically effected by automation, experience design and artificial intelligence. Augmented shows us that these changes are typical of historical disruptions, but this time the changes are happening much faster. This book really blew my mind. All I can say is: I m glad I run a technology company.
Rod Drury , CEO of XERO
When someone as obsessed and thoughtful about the future as Brett King gets ahold of a keyboard and sufficient time to think and write-watch out, world. Here comes a book that will broaden your mind and make you re-examine what you think you know about tomorrow.
David Wolman , author of The End of Money and contributing editor at Wired
What happens when you take accelerating exponential change for granted? The augmented world of the future described by Brett King and Alex Lightman is shaped by the profound consequences of this understanding. The social transformation, the radical impact on the very definition of being human and the huge economic upside of the global opportunities are all deeply analysed and richly illustrated in this inspiring book.
David Orban , Managing Partner of Network Society Ventures
If you want real financial security and the ability to fund your dreams in the future, then you need to see what is coming next. Brett King s Augmented is a roadmap of the biggest changes and the most disruptive technologies we ll need to navigate to get there.
David Bach , New York Times Bestselling Author of The Automatic Millionaire

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Book design by Benson Tan
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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Name(s): King, Brett, 1968- | Lightman, Alex, 1961- contributor. | Rangaswami, J. P., contributor. | Lark, Andy, contributor.
Title: Augmented : life in the smart lane / Brett King, with contributions from Alex Lightman, JP Rangaswami Andy Lark.
Description: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2016
Identifier(s): OCN 906658326 | eISBN 978 981 4677 58 5
Subject(s): LCSH: Technology--Social aspects. | Technological innovations--Social aspects. | Technological forecasting.
Classification: LCC T173.8 | DDC 303.483--dc23
Printed in Singapore by Fabulous Printers Pte Ltd
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

To my daughter Hannah who has learned strength is best measured from the inside. And to Michael Armstrong and Peter Brooks whom I can never thank enough for starting me on this journey.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: 250 Years of Disruption
1. The History of Technology Disruption
2. The Augmented Age
3. When Computers Disappear
4. The Robot Advantage
Part 2: How the Smart World Learns
5. Human 2.0
6. The Augmented Man
7. Life Stream, Agents, Avatars and Advisers
Part 3: The Augmented Age
8. Trains, Planes, Automobiles and Houses
9. Smart Banking, Payments and Money
10. Trust and Privacy in an Augmented World
11. Augmented Cities with Smart Citizens
12. The New Era of Engagement

Conclusions: Life in the Smart Lane
About the Author
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
My thanks to the team at Moven for giving me the flexibility to pursue this endeavour, especially Alex Sion and Mircea Mihaescu. My thanks to the coffee shops that allowed me to write while consuming their java, namely Las Vetas in Fairfield, Koffee in New Haven, the lobby lounge of The Algonquin Hotel in NYC, Coupa Caf in Palo Alto, Les Deux Magots in Paris, Drip Caf and Artista Perfetto in Taiwan, Truth Coffee in Cape Town, Scopa Caffe in Wellington and numerous Starbucks around the world. My thanks to the FinTechMafia for allowing me to bounce ideas off them constantly. The team at Voice America for keeping me on the air. Thanks to Rudi at Performance Flight for teaching an old dog new tricks. To Jay Kemp, Tanja Markovic, Leanne, Parker Blue and, most of all, Rachel Morrissey for keeping me sane and looking after me on the road and at home day after day. Thanks to Rose Marie Terenzio for helping get the word out and to Katharine Carpenter, Rachel Heng, Janine Gamilla and the team at Marshall Cavendish for making this happen. And, of course, to my co-authors in this endeavour, especially Alex Lightman who went above and beyond.
But most of all, thanks to Rebekah, Hannah, Matt and Thomas who put up with me when I went off to write for hours at a time, and then came back home bursting with crazy ideas on nanotech, robotics, AI, health tech and other such things.
From Andy Lark: For Sophia and Zach, I can barely imagine the worlds you will create and interact with.
From Alex Lightman: My sincere thanks to Brett King for inviting me to join him in writing Augmented , to my mother Elizabeth for instilling my love of reading and writing, to Eric Schuss for assistance with robots, to Eddy Waty for helping me to reach many of my goals in recent years, to Dr Mohammed Abdel-Haq for showing me how money and power move the world and to Paul Shepherd and Dr Chris Harz for three decades of best friendships.
Introduction
My six-year-old son Thomas won t need a driver s licence to own a