I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World,

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work & Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?

The world, as Nick Biltonâ€”with tongue-in-cheekâ€”shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the fear that always takes hold as new technology replaces the old. In fact, as Bilton shows, the digital era we are part of is, in all its creative and disruptive forms, the foundation for exciting and engaging experiences not only for business but society as well.

Both visionary and practical, I Live in the Future & Hereâ€™s How It Works captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the understanding of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior:

Â Â Â â€¢Â With a walk on the wild sideâ€”through the porn industryâ€”we see how this business model is leading the way, adapting product to consumer needs and preferences and beating piracy.
Â Â Â â€¢Â By understanding how the Internet is creating a new type of consumer, the â€œconsumnivore,â€ living in a world where immediacy trumps quality and quantity, we see who is dictating the type of content being created.
Â Â Â â€¢Â Through exploring the way our brains are adapting, we gain a new understanding of the positive effect of new media narratives on thinking and action. One fascinating study, for example, shows that surgeons who play video games are more skillful than their nonplaying counterparts.
Â Â Â â€¢Â Why social networks, the openness of the Internet, and handy new gadgets are not just vehicles for telling the world what you had for breakfast but are becoming the foundation for â€œanchoring communitiesâ€ that tame information overload and help determine what news and information to trust and consume and what to ignore.
Â Â Â â€¢Â Why the map of tomorrow is centered on â€œMe,â€ and why that simple fact means a totally new approach to the way media companies shape content.
Â Â Â â€¢Â Why people pay for experiences, not content; and why great storytelling and extended relationships will prevail and enable businesses to engage with customers in new ways that go beyond merely selling information, instead creating unique and meaningful experiences.
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I Live in the Future & Hereâ€™s How It Works walks its own talk by creating a unique reader experience: Semacodes embedded in both print and eBook versions will take readers directly to Biltonâ€™s website (www.NickBilton.com), where they can access videos of the author further developing his point of view and also delve into the research that was key to shaping the central ideas of the book. The website will also offer links to related content and the ability to comment on a chapter, allowing the reader to join the conversation.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-10-04
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884129258609
EANs 9780307591128

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2011-10-04
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884129258609
EANs	9780307591128

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work & Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

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