Reading List: Books on Technology
Digital Human is an intuitive roadmap for the future. As we have turned digital, it is a timely guide on how to pilot through the world of finance while creating the next generation of humanity.
Author: Chris Skinner
Digital Human is an intuitive roadmap for the future. As we have turned digital, it is a timely guide on how to pilot through the world of finance while creating the next generation of humanity. This book unravels the impact of digital revolution and how the lack of online presence has become so unlikely and how the consumer trends are gradually shifting towards online business and transaction. The book being a digital success guide on connectivity, with front-office apps tied in to both back-office analytics and marketplaces with many players and segments shows how transformation is the key element to drive through everything.
Author: Byron Reese
As we have reached to a great turning point in history where technology is unperturbed to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age gives an absorbing insight into AI, robotics and their extraordinary inference for our species. Being at the doorstep of the fourth major change brought by two technologies (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics), The Fourth Age provides prodigious background information on how we got to this point and what all we will soon be facing: machine consciousness, automation, radical life extensions artificial life and much more.
Author: George Glider
Built on big data and machine intelligence, Google has had an awesome era but is coming to an end now. In Life after Google, George Gilder, who is a peerless visionary of technology and culture, explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a breakdown and what to expect when the post-Google age comes up. Silicon Valley has given up on security even after advances in artificial intelligence has induced delusions of omnipotence. The Internet firewalls have proved hopelessly penetrable. The Silicon Valley, long leaded by a few giants, has now been facing a great unbundling which will next give away computer power and commerce and will transform the economy and the Internet. Life after Google is almost here.
Author: Toby Walsh
As predicted by artificial intelligence and robotics experts, by 2062 we will have machine that will be as intelligent as us. But nobody knows how life will unfold after these machines have effectively been successful. Toby Walsh, a world-leader in the field of artificial intelligence, considers the impact Artificial Intelligence will have on work, war, politics, economics, everyday human life and, indeed, human death. What if automation takes away jobs? What is robots actually take over? Based on a deep understanding of technology and its implications, the book describes the choices we need to make today to ensure that the future remains bright.
From the July 2018 issue of FHM India.
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