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The Fourth Transformation

How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything

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The Fourth Transformation

By: Robert Scoble, Shel Israel
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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Ten years from today, the center of our digital lives will no longer be the smart phone, but device that looks like ordinary eyeglasses: except those glasses will have settings for virtual and augmented reality. 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.

Instead of touching and sliding on a mobile phone, we will make things happen by moving our eyes or by brainwaves. When we talk with someone or play an online game, we will see that person in the same room with us. 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 Visual Web 100 times larger than the current Internet, and we will find things by images, buy things by brands, or just by looking at a logo on the jacket of a passerby. Language will be irrelevant, and a merchant in a developing world will have access to global markets.

Medical devices will cure schizophrenia, allow quadriplegics to walk. People will be able to touch and feel objects and other people who are not actually there for conversations, games and perhaps intimate experiences.

From kindergarten to on-the-job, learning will become experiential. Children will visit great battlefields and tour historic places in VR rather than read about them in text books. Med students and surgeons will learn and practice on virtual humans rather than cadavers; oil rig workers will understand how to handle emergencies, before the ever leave the home office.

The Fourth Transformation is based on two years of research and about 400 interviews with technologists and business decision makers. It explains the technology and product landscape on a level designed to be interesting and useful to business thinkers and general audiences. Mostly it talks about how VR and AR are already being used, or will be used in the next one-to-three years.

©2016 Robert Scoble and Shel Israel (P)2016 Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
Computer Science Virtual World Business Artificial Intelligence
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Amazing insight

This describes what the future may look like in an easy to understand and very articulate way. It's that good I'm going to listen to it all over again.

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Great overview on the current state of VR, AR and

Great overview on the current state of VR, AR and MR. more words required to send

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useful for research

This was useful to me as I am researching this area. I did not enjoy it, but it was informative.

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Good audiobook, didn't enjoy the narrating...

This was a good audiobook, but I didn't really enjoy the narrating. The voice is clear, but it sounds like the voice in an action movie trailer rather than someone reading a technology book. It got a bit grating after a while. Another person might find his voice just fine though.

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Basic, sensationalist and unsubstantiated.

I felt I was listening to a high school presentation on AR/VR/MR. The "greatest cop car chase video" style of narration did not help this feeling. There was very little content that was not excited speculation.

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