The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NCAXC9K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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You don't need a headset to see our Mixed-Reality future. Just get this book M. Markman If you’re only casually aware of what’s out there, your current image of a VR enthusiast may be of a twenty-something gamer with an oversized headset strapped to their face, tethered to a powerful computer, stumbling and flailing blindly around a room, bumping into walls and furniture as they fight dragons, zombies, and aliens that only they can see.If that’s what you imagine, prepare for a revelation. Scoble and Israel’s new book, “The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intell. The Fourth Transformation brings new meaning to 'seeing is believing'! Sam Perry Oh No! Oh Dear! Disclosure #1 - this book the Fourth Transformation by Robert Scoble and Shell Israel, is going to cost me, dearly! I can explain. Really, it will be orders of magnitude greater than the cost of this timely volume - $17.70 on Amazon, despite having been accorded an advance copy (more on this soon).The point is, this duo makes a convincing case that we are on the verge of a new media, a new capacity for story-telling, which as a nation and a world we have just learned once again is perhaps the most primal and power. A must read for technologists of all stripes! Paul Duplantis In 1960s, communication theorist Marshall Mcluhan wrote how communication technologies would become "extensions of man", a prediction becoming increasingly apparent in the early stages of what Robert Scoble and Shel Israel call the Fourth Transformation, outlined in their latest collaboration, The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything.Just as Bill Gates, in the mid 90’s, laid out a vision for the future of the internet in “The Road Ahead”, Scoble and Israel
The Fourth Transformation is based on two years of research and about 400 interviews with technologists and business decision makers. Children will visit great battlefields and tour historic places in VR rather than read about them in text books. From kindergarten to on-the-job, learning will become experiential. Instead of touching and sliding on a mobile phone, we will make things happen by moving our eyes or by brainwaves. What you really see and what is computer generated will be mixed so tightly together, that we won't really be able to tell what is real and what is illusion. It explains the technology and product landscape on a level designed to be interesting and useful to business thinkers and general audiences. We will be able to touch and feel her or him through haptic technology. We won't need to search online with words, because there will be a new