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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Nick Bilton
3.31 AVERAGE
10 reviews for:
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Nick Bilton
3.31 AVERAGE
interesting, fascinating glimpse of where technology can take us. recommend to anyone interested in the future of mass media.
I actually finished this book ages ago and forgot to take it off my list. I guessed at the completion date.
This book wasn't really for me, but it is for those who are insecure or unsure about the technology filling our lives. I won't say I knew everything he wrote about, but I could nod at all of it. It was all familiar. That is why there was nothing very revolutionary about it.
However, give it to your favourite Luddite. :) It's a must-read for them. Have Nick Bilton tell them what you've been trying to tell them for years.
This book wasn't really for me, but it is for those who are insecure or unsure about the technology filling our lives. I won't say I knew everything he wrote about, but I could nod at all of it. It was all familiar. That is why there was nothing very revolutionary about it.
However, give it to your favourite Luddite. :) It's a must-read for them. Have Nick Bilton tell them what you've been trying to tell them for years.
you lost me at "[eating] bytes, snacks and meals" nick bilton, and you'll never have me back.
Sadly boring. I enjoyed some of Biltons previous work but found this so droll. Some small fragments of the book are thought provoking but for a book that looks at tech, how it’s crafted and shaped our world, and how it will look in the future, this just lacked any sense of wonder.
This was a good primer to a lot of the trends that are shaping our current and future world, but I found it was a bit too basic for someone who is already paying attention to many of these trends.
Nick Bilton is a technology writer for the New York Times. In this book, he talks about how technology and the Internet are changing media and our entire world rapidly. He puts a positive spin on the demise of "traditional" ways of doing things, and opened my mind to a lot of possibilities I hadn't thought of for our future digital world. He also included some interesting stuff about how our news is becoming personalized and curated in new and individual ways. A fascinating read.
Really getting into this one. It seems like a great book for any information professional. Never realized the porn industry and librarians had similar battles!
A bit out of date, naturally, but otherwise this book was a solid look at the future of media technology. It made me excited for the kinds of storytelling we'll see in the next decade... lots of potential! Of course, the most interesting chapter was the one on the porn industry. Haha!
informative
medium-paced
It's the apocalypse! No. Not really. As anyone with some knowledge of history knows, significant technological change leads to fear and loathing. So we aren't alone in trying to figure out how it works, or will work.
I like that Bilton doesn't take the subject matter too seriously. Social media gurus spend enough time doing that. Though he does fall prey to some business-speak now and again which detracts from his mostly accessible writing style.
He covers the porn industry as leading-edge innovator, literacy in the digital age and how revenue models work in this new era.
There are some notes that stuck with me. How communities are our filters--in other words, my world view and my buying habits are more influenced by the communities I participate in than any mainstream channel. How immediacy trumps everything--it's more important that quality or quantity.
The most interesting stuff had to do with the way the modern brain is adapting to this latest technology. Your little Mary who's really good at video games? Future surgeon!
You can also hear Bilton talk about these phenomena on his site, http://www.nickbilton.com.
I like that Bilton doesn't take the subject matter too seriously. Social media gurus spend enough time doing that. Though he does fall prey to some business-speak now and again which detracts from his mostly accessible writing style.
He covers the porn industry as leading-edge innovator, literacy in the digital age and how revenue models work in this new era.
There are some notes that stuck with me. How communities are our filters--in other words, my world view and my buying habits are more influenced by the communities I participate in than any mainstream channel. How immediacy trumps everything--it's more important that quality or quantity.
The most interesting stuff had to do with the way the modern brain is adapting to this latest technology. Your little Mary who's really good at video games? Future surgeon!
You can also hear Bilton talk about these phenomena on his site, http://www.nickbilton.com.