Future You

Essential Future Technologies You Need to Know to Survive the Digital Era

By: Jason Strong

Narrated by: Jordan D. Lewis

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

From Amazon's Alexa to Japan's robot chefs, technology is becoming increasingly saturated into our everyday lives. Previous technological revolutions have come and gone, but this one is different. For the first time in economic history, productivity and employment are diverging, suggesting that humans are contributing less to economic growth.

Businesses are now turning to robotics and artificial intelligence to pick up the slack where humans are failing. As they become faster, smarter, and cheaper, humans will continually struggle to compete. For many, this will lead to redundancy and hardship.

But with great change comes great opportunity. Where many will fall victim to the rise of the robots, others will flourish in an era of rapid innovation. Whole swaths of industries will be created as technology opens the doors to boundless opportunities. Whether you sink or swim depends on how able you are to adopt this new technology.

There is only one thing that separates a successful you from a redundant you. Knowledge! This audiobook provides overview on some of the most disruptive upcoming technologies and acts as the foundation of knowledge for you to be able to leverage new technology to your advantage.

Technologies covered in this book include:

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will rapidly saturate business, the workplace, and the home.
• Reasons why it is technically possible for AI to become more intelligent than humans and the consequences this technological singularity would reap on humanity
• The future of the internet, big data, cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT), and how they will transform the nature of business.
• Autonomous vehicles and how you will soon be ditching your vehicle in favor of hailing a driverless vehicle through a simple phone app
• Discussion on whether we will ever be able to ditch our over-reliance on filthy fossil fuels. Who will emerge victorious in the fight between renewable and nuclear energy?
• The possibilities of genetic and bionic modifications and how we may soon be able to order genes like food on a menu.
• The consequences of man playing God and taking us beyond our natural limits
• The future of the welfare state and how schemes such as universal basic income and negative income tax may be the only way to keep money flowing in an era of mass automation

You'll also finally learn where you fit into all this. We look at the future of employment and the workplace to see who will be the real winners and losers in the next tech revolution.

Technology moves fast, so you must act faster. Join your fellow listeners, scroll up, and click the "buy now" button to learn how to best prepare for the new digital era.

©2018 Jason Strong (P)2019 Jason Strong

glimpse into the future

the book explains very well the eight major trajectories that will imply our life in the near future. It's not science fiction it's based on facts.
you might know much of it but the book presents it very well

Good insight into the future

This was a great book to see what the possible future can and what we need to work on to stay employed and enjoy a good life.

Interesting read. Great Narration!

This fascinating book covers a lot of territory about what the future will look like in the areas of artificial intelligence and how intelligent machines will affect the future of work, even to the point of whether computers can become self-conscious and what that would mean for humankind. It gets into how bionics and gene modification will alter and augment human beings, and also covers a wide-ranging discussion about energy, including how different kinds of nuclear power may be the way out of the climate disaster. You’ll come away with a broad scope of knowledge, background history, and the terminology these areas use in helping to shape our future.

Great Narrator great read

As a certified Nerd I have a great deal of knowledge in all things Tech but this Audio book offered me a few tidbits that I was not aware of.

The Narrator did a good job with the material and made it entertaining.



This Book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review

Awesome!

Was a really good listen and narrated very well. Covered a wide range of topics including AI, genetics and all sorts of technologies as well as hints at what sorts of jobs will thrive in a tech driven economy. It really makes you think about life in the not too distant future and our place in it. The author also never got carried away and each technology was grounded with research. A must listen for anyone who wants to glimpse their future!

Kind of a turd

As expected lots of conjecture with the occasional fact mixed in. By itself that wouldn’t be the worst thing and I could have got past it. Sadly you couldn’t go one chapter without the authors political opinions. Just sad!

Good stuff!

Combine this book with Neal Stephenson books and you have the future in your hands. Interesting. And a good narrator which helps a lot.