Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane - Hardcover

"We are in the midst of a huge wave of technological change. Augmented Reality. Self-driving cars. Human-like robots. Additive manufacturing and much more are bringing deep cultural change and exposing long-fed fears of a dystopian future. Brett King not just properly catalogs all of these, but tells us what it all means: that we soon will be AUGMENTED. His look at what's happening will be my bible for a long time." - Robert Scoble, Bestselling Author of Age of Context and Beyond Mobile "Welcome to the AUGMENTED AGE. Super powers. Super cities. Super vehicles. Super robots. Technology is about to change everything in your life. Whether you're scared, excited, or both, you need to read this awesome roadmap of the future that Brett King has created. Those who can anticipate the future can thrive in it." - Ramez Naam, Author of Nexus "When someone as obsessed and thoughtful about the future as Brett King gets ahold of a keyboard and sufficient time to to think and write-watch you, world. Here comes a book that will broaden your mind and make you reexamine what you think you know about tomorrow." David Wolman, Author of The End of Money, Contributing Editor at Wired "You may think you've heard all there is to know about the dramatic changes to come in our digital future. Well, prepare to have your mind blown... again. In a crowded field of prognosticators, Brett King stands out for his clearly articulated vision of how technology is changing who we are." - Michael J. Casey, Author of The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order. "We live in a world where software is getting smart enough to automate things that only people could do just a few years ago. This is going to radically change the way we educate our children, and the way people work ni the future. AUGMENTED is a wake up call for a whole swathe of industries including the accounting profession. If your job can be automated, it probably will." - Rod Drury, CEO of Xero "Whole industries have been vaporized by technological progress, but as Brett King show us, this trend is just getting started. AUGMENTED is your guide to a world in chaos, where each wave of technological innovation collides with several others. Get ready, get smart, read this book." - Robert Tercek, Author of Vaporized "If you want real financial security and the ability to fund your dreams in the future, then you need to see what is coming next. Brett King's Augmented is a roadmap of the biggest changes and the most disruptive technologies we'll need to navigate to get there." - David Bach, New York Times Bestselling Author "As one of the world's most followed and provocative voices in digital finance, Brett King has once again thrown down the gauntlet. Brett's vision of the future should be required reading for governments, think tanks, investors, or basically anyone wondering how transformational technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, Bitcoin, and gene-editing may impact our society." - Seth Wheeler, Former White House Advisor on Financial Services and Brookings Institution Guest Scholar

Brett King is a four times Amazon bestselling author, a renowned commentator and globally respected speaker on the future of business. He has spoken in over 40 countries, to half a million people, on how technology is disrupting business, changing behaviour and influencing society. He has spoken at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, Singularity University's Exponential Finance, the Economist and many more. 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 the world's leading dedicated radio show on technology impact in banking and financial services "Breaking Banks" (72 countries, 1 million listeners). He is also the founder of Moven, a successful mobile start-up, which has raised over US$24 million to date, with the world's first mobile, downloadable bank account, available in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. Named "King of the Disruptors" by Banking Exchange magazine, King was voted American Banker's Innovator of the Year in 2012, voted the world's #1 Financial Services Influencer by The Financial Brand and was nominated by Bank Innovation as one of the top 10 "coolest brands in banking". He was shortlisted for the 2015 Advance Global Australian of the Year Award for being one of the most influential Australians living offshore. His books have been released in more than a dozen languages and he has achieved bestseller status in 20 countries, with many of his books still appearing in bestseller lists more than 18 months after their initial release. His fifth book is Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane. King has been featured on Fast Company, TechCrunch, Wired, Fortune magazine, Fox News, ABC, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, Financial Times, the Economist, ABA Journal, Bank Technology News and many more. He contributes regularly as a blogger in Huffington Post. In his spare time, he is an IFR-rated private pilot, scuba diver and gamer.