Get Ready for Tomorrow: Richard Watson

Join Richard Watson at Edinburgh International Book Festival for a discussion about the world of today and envision what kind of world we wish to create in the future.

Technologically, the world is unrecognisable from 100 years ago: sometimes even the 1990s feel like a bygone age. Global trends analyst Richard Watson believes the next half-century will also leave 2016 utterly in its wake. On most measures that matter, we’ve never had it so good. Physically, life for humankind has improved immeasurably over the last fifty years. Yet there is a crisis of progress slowly spreading across the world. Perhaps this is due to a failure of vision; in the 1960s we dreamed of flying cars and moon hotels; today what we’ve ended up with are status updates and cat videos.

To a large degree, the history of the next fifty years will be about the relationship between people and technologies created by a tiny handful of designers and developers. These inventions will undoubtedly change our lives, but the question is, to what end?

Digital vs Human

Richard Watson

RRP: £14.99 Pub date: 14 Apr 2016 Category: Popular science Cover view

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