The world as we know will change forever as soon as 2046. Here’s a sneak peek

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The world as we know will change forever as soon as 2046.
Here’s a sneak peek“It’s 2046. You don’t own a car, or much of anything else, paying instead to subscribe to items as you need them. Virtual reality is as commonplace as cell phones. You talk to your device with a common set of hand gestures. Practically all surfaces have become a screen, and each screen watches you back. Every aspect of your daily life is tracked by you or someone else. Advertisers pay you to watch their ads. Robots and AIs took over your old job but also created a new one for you, doing work you could not have imagined back in 2016.” Hooked?
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Futurists can dispense some energizing and absolute alarming visions for the eventual fate of machines and science that either upgrade or supplant activities and products precious to us. Being beamed from place onto the next by teleportation should be right around the bend, yet it hasn't become possible yet. Inventions like the VCR that were once cutting edge - and now aren't.

Determining the future of technology is for visionaries who plan to innovate better tools - and for the standard individuals who want to profit by the good and improved. Numerous inventions are conceived in the labs and never make it into the consumer market, while others advance past the pace of putting great regulations on their utilization.

Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of the Wired magazine and the author of ‘What Technology Wants’, in his new book ‘The inevitable’, dedicated to anyone who’s up for adaptation and is curious to know the future of technology, is doing the rounds. It gives you a strong reality check, and helps you with different perspectives to deal with the future in a better way.

The book starts with his own story as a kid and as you move forward-- Kevin goes on with his 60 years of experience and the chronicle behind the rise of internet. In almost every chapter he pinpoints that technology cannot be ignored, it will spread and people will have to learn to adapt, after all technology is overflowing with upgrades; every time something new to ease, to offer, to learn.

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Starting from the internet revolution to data science to artificial intelligence to starting up, this book offers the prophecy of technology. Not many futurists can predict the future with logical explanations and proof. Although this is a science fiction, Kevin goes on realistically to prove his point, until you start taking the perspective seriously. There’s a positive vibe around this book, predicting the doomsday is easy, predicting a technologically sound future is not as easy as it sounds. In his own words, Kevin is the first of its kind, ‘A Protopian’ (People who believe in progress).

This book is a 'Sound Prophecy' of technology. A must read.