Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The convergence of artificial intelligence and immersive computing represents a major inflection point in human history unlike anything we have experienced before. We are about to enter a new reality in which AI and immersive technologies will fundamentally change our lives, impacting not only how we work and play, but how we perceive our world, experience our activities, and interact with each other. And most of all, it will transform how we view our communities, our nationalities, and our personal identities.
The core technology underlying it will go by many names - some may call it extended reality (XR) while others will refer to it as spatial computing, immersive media or the metaverse - but whatever it is called, this new AI-powered reality will unleash a magical morphable world that adapts to each of us in real-time, customizing our most basic daily experiences. This will trigger a transformation to society no less significant than the invention of the printing press, the steam engine, the digital computer, or the internet. Of course, this begs the trillion-dollar question - should we be excited, terrified, or something in between?
This book provides an honest and balanced view of the benefits and challenges of these transformative technologies, empowering you to make up your own mind and do your part to help steer the future towards positive outcomes. So which future will it be - Utopian or Dystopian?
Synopsis
Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.
AI and immersive media will permeate society, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. This future will be enabled by powerful AI systems and lightweight immersive eyewear that splash digital content all over our physical surroundings, enhancing and embellishing our world. As the boundaries between the real and the virtual disappear, technology will expand what it means to be human. It will also unleash significant new risks to our privacy, autonomy, and even our identity.
Our Next Reality debates whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and gives guidance on how to aim for the best future we can.
Synopsis
Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. The planet is headed for a momentous upheaval, and we are not prepared. We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.
In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and gives guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as AI/VR/AR accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia.
Synopsis
Foreword by Neal Stephenson, bestselling author of Snow Crash Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. The planet is headed for a momentous upheaval, and we are not prepared.
We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.
In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and gives guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as AI/VR/AR accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia.