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Richard Watson is the author and publisher of What's Next, a quarterly report on global trends, and is Chief Futurist at the Future Exploration network.

Opere di Richard Watson

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1961
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Attività lavorative
futurist
author
lecturer

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The book covers the usual suspects, trends you see today extended out to the next 50 years but with little critical analysis about how the trends interact with each other and even whether these trends might not collapse and transform. I find this book as an essential reference for how not to write futurology because it does not worry about internal contradictions or balance between the dystopic potential of existing trends. I see futurology as world creation of possibilities that are internally consistent and balanced, not one sided, fragile projections of what we see today, especially at a fifty year timescale.… (altro)
 
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yates9 | 8 altre recensioni | Feb 28, 2024 |
Book Title: Digital Vs Human
Author: Richard Watson
Genre: Non-Fiction/Informative

Book Title:
The book title ' Digital Vs Human' clearly explains that the book is about how computers, technology and artificial intelligence have overtaken against the human minds and the repercussions in the coming ages.

Book Cover:
The book cover is an image of a human hand and the hand of a robot or humanoid that clearly illustrates the contents of the book.

About the book:
The book, 'Digital Vs Human', talks about varied topics starting from emotions, health, family relationships, culture, economy, media, societal norms, and community standards and their importance and the effect of technology on these areas. The author has managed well to describe some scenarios of such effects where a reader would sit aback with astonishment.

The author also explains in the book about how the Online Social Media is taking the role of fellow being, a good friend and a best pal and yes sometimes also donning the role of a life partner. While reading this chapter, I remembered the Oscar NominatedWinning movie ' Her ', where the Operating System in the Protagonist's computer device becomes his emotional and sexual partner. That goose bumps felt while watching the movie were reiterated while reading some chapters. The imaginary life a human is presented due to too much of online social media are discussed with intrinsic details that will really scare every reader.

The author must be really applauded for the simple yet thought provoking and straight to point approach in the book, while dealing the issues and problems that are anticipated for the future generations in a very simple and clear manner.
What I like:
1.The truth that the human race is now facing
2. The consequences and dangerous results of too much of advent of technology in human lives

What I didn't like:
These kind of books are eye openers and thus there is no point of disliking related to the contents. As the book is from an Best Selling Author, internationally, an avid reader like me would definitely try to find out any errors, but I have found none!

Language & Grammar:
Perfect writing skills and great language is observed.

My Verdict: An intelligent book for greater understanding of technology and artificial intelligence related effects on mankind.

Book Title: 3/5
Book Cover: 3/5
About the book: 3/5
Language & Grammar: 3/5

Final Rating : 3/5



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BookReviewsCafe | 1 altra recensione | Apr 27, 2023 |
An excellent book to get to grips with the approaching future of more and more technology. It's chapters cover a wide range of topics from 'Society and Culture', Media, Technology, Healthcare, Education and Work. It gives a good picture of the expected impact of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on work and society.
It is an easy read, full of references, to back up his statements.

Some Excerpts:
Theodore Zelden suggested that loneliness could be the single biggest problem in the 21st century. - p11

Sherry Turkle: the world is more talkative now than any time in its history. ... At the expense of meaningful conversation. … Andrew Keen: social media 'is an architecture of human isolation'. - p40

It's funny that our addiction to machines today, especially mobile devices, is undermining our interpersonal skills and eroding our abstract reasoning and creativity when these skills are exactly what we'll need to compete against the machine tomorrow. - p77

Between 1988 and 2003, the effectiveness of Computers increased a staggering 43-million-fold. - p84

Jonathan Franzen: 'The early dream of digital democracy has also soured, because it turns out that a complete democracy of expression attracts voices that are 'stupid, angry and have a lot of time on their hands'. - p90

We should therefore worry less about making our machines think and worry more about ensuring that we humans still do. - p246
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GeoffSC | 1 altra recensione | Jul 25, 2020 |
Gets a lot of the economic parts right ( I suspect it had all already started to happen however, so he ' predicted ' it. The analysis still very good ) No so good on the technological.
 
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Baku-X | 8 altre recensioni | Jan 10, 2017 |

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Utenti
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Popolarità
#92,014
Voto
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Recensioni
15
ISBN
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Lingue
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