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Digital VS Human :` How We`ll Live, Love and Think in the Future

From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow. On most measures that matter, we've never had it so good. Physically, life for humankind has improved immeasurably over the last fifty years. Yet there is a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Watson
Format: Printed Book
Published: Amaryllis / Manju Publishing 2018
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Taming the future
  • Society and culture: how we came to love our machines more than each other
  • Media and communications: why instant communication is killing the art of conversation
  • Science and technology: is it safe to build a parallal universe in your spare bedroom?
  • Economy and money: is digital cash making us careless?
  • Healthcare and medicine: can we ever acquire immunity against loneliness?
  • Automotive and transport: where might self-driving cars eventually take us?
  • Education and knowledge: what happens to learning when your teacher is an app?
  • Work and employment: why the future might look a lot like the Middle Ages
  • Home and family: remember we lived and loved in analog
  • Art and war: the search for (and submission to) something far larger than ourselves
  • Conclusions and suggestions: a simple question that hardly anyone is asking.