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Bezig met laden... The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series) (editie 2020)door Peter H. Diamandis (Auteur), Steven Kotler (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Individual car ownership enjoyed over a century of ascendency. The first real threat it faced, today's ride-sharing model, only showed up in the last decade. But that ride-sharing model won't even get 10 years to dominate. Already, it's on the brink of 'autonomous' electric car displacement, which is on the brink of flying car disruption, which is on the brink of Hyperloop and rockets-to-any where decimation. Plus, there may soon be avatars which negate the need for physical travel itself. The most important part: All of this change will happen over the next 10 years - The future sure is faster than we think! Providing an idealistic outlook of how life looks like on the horizon, this book talks high-level about many technologies in a very optimistic way. I found 'high-level' part to be both good and bad - good for people who need an introduction on what can be done with putting technologies together and bad for those 'techie' people who go, "Hmm.. now how exactly does a self-driven car know what time I'll step out of my home for it to be waiting for me?". If you belong to the first category, you'll absolutely love this book. Convergence of technologies is the core of the book. I found the impact of such a convergence on finance, banking, healthcare to be extremely innovative. As mentioned above, the authors paint a very cheerful picture with the possibilities of the new tech, but don't talk about the issues that is brings along with it. A refrigerator placing an order for food? Wow, but what about the security issues? Nevertheless, I found the book to be a very interesting read. Don't plan with what you can do with existing abilities, imagine something that's way beyond what is possible; convergence will definitely help your perseverance - is my take away from this book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Bottom-line: As discussed in ‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson 20 years back, his metaverse (not to be confused with Zuckerberg’s concept), which was far closer to the present reality than Gibson’s, saw early adopters owning vast chunks of of VR real estate whilst late arrivals had to buy somewhere in the VR slums. Your appearance in the VR world, and how much you could effect things, was dependent on what we would now call Bitcoin. So at the lowest level, you could be a tourist there but without the power to actually do anything. The real new age was around 2002 when Google started to analyse behavioural data from search terms and used it to create brand new predictions about what people were thinking and feeling, and predicting what they would do next in their lives. Not just the search term itself, but the surplus data around it, e.g. composition of words, idiosyncratic grammar, time and location of the search, etc. Now for example they could recognise when we were feeling depressed or would be feeling depressed in the future, then sell that prediction to companies who could then target specific products to that person at their most vulnerable moments. From there, we have the world today, where every product is now an opportunity to capture more data about as, e.g. cars that gather data about how we are driving. Our private lives have become invaded by corporations and their sensor tools, leading to our private moments being turned into ruthless capitalist opportunities to their profits. Surveillance capitalism is actually really quite evil. Diamandis’/Kotler’s “future” is not something we’ve not heard it all before. ( )