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The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250-year-long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, however, promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts, and changes that are unparalleled. While consumers today are camping outside of an Apple store waiting to be one of the first to score a new Apple Watch or iPhone, the next generation of wearables will be able to predict if we're likely to have a heart attack and recommend a course of action. We watch news of Google's self-driving cars, but don't likely realize this means progressive cities will have to ban human drives in the next decade because us humans are too risky. Following on from the Industrial or Machine Age, the Space Age and the Digital Age, the Augmented Age will be based on four key disruptive themes--Artificial Intelligence, Experience Design, Smart Infrastructure, and HealthTech. Historically the previous ages bought significant disruption and changes, but on a net basis jobs were created, wealth was enhanced, and the health and security of society improved. What will the Augmented Age bring? Will robots take our jobs, and AI's subsume us as inferior intelligences, or will this usher in a new age of abundance? Augmented is a book on future history, but more than that, it is a story about how you will live your life in a world that will change more in the next twenty years than it has in the last 250 years. Are you ready to adapt? Because if history proves anything, you don't have much of a choice.

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Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, kids, and too many pets to mention. Brett King is a four-time Amazon bestselling author, a renowned commentator, and globally respected speaker on the future of business. He has spoken in over forty countries, to half a million people, on how technology is disrupting business, changing behavior, and influencing society. He has spoken at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, Singularity University's Exponential Finance, and the Economist. He has visited the White House to advise the National Economic Council on the Future of Banking and been invited to meet with regulators from the United States, China, the European Union and the World Bank. King hosts Breaking Banks, the world's leading dedicated radio show on technology impact in banking and financial services (seventy-two countries, 1 million listeners). He is also the founder of Moven, the world's first mobile, downloadable bank account. This successful mobile start-up, which has raised over US $24 million to date, is available in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Andy Lark, a globally awarded marketer and business leader, is the chief marketing and business officer of the cloud accounting software leader Xero, which was named the world's most innovative growth company in 2015 by Forbes. For the past two decades, Lark has worked alongside CEOs and their leadership teams to define-and then attain-digital and brand greatness for their institutions. These include Air New Zealand, Brocade, Commonwealth Bank, Coles, Dell, Emirates Team New Zealand, IBM, Simplot, Southwest Airlines, Sun, the New Zealand government, Visa, and Xero. As an entrepreneur and marketer, Lark has built some of the world's most successful e-commerce sites, online communities, and applications for smartphones. Alex Lightman is an award-winning inventor, artist, entrepreneur, and government advisor. He is the author of the first book on 4G wireless, Brave New Unwired World, as well as Reconciliation: 78 Reasons to End the US Embargo of Cuba. His awards include the first Economist Reader's Award for the Innovation That Will Most Radically Change the World, SGI's Internet VR contest grand prize (out of 800 entries), and Avatars '97. He is the chairman of Witkit, Everblaze, and GINET, and director of a venture fund. He is a graduate of MIT and attended graduate school at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Born in Calcutta, JP Rangaswami read economics and worked as a financial journalist before changing careers over three decades ago to enter that strange space where society, technology, and banking converge. Today, Rangaswami works as chief data officer at a major financial institution, having previously been chief scientist and chief information officer at a number of global institutions. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. In addition, he is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and a venture partner at Anthemis. Rangaswami is also a popular keynote speaker, and can be found blogging at confusedofcalcutta.com.

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