Digital Is Destroying Everything: How Big Data, Fancy Algorithms, and Universal Connectivity Are Transforming Business and the World We Live in

by Andrew Edwards

Survive the coming Digipocalypse! The combined power of all things digital is destroying and remaking everything: business, society, and your life. And it won't all be for the better. Think you've seen the biggest changes? You're wrong. The digital juggernaut is only beginning to accelerate. Don't get flattened: read Digital is Destroying Everything. One institution, industry, and idea at a time, this explosive book reveals how digital is wiping out virtually everything you or anyone else ever held dear. Drawing on his unique perspective as both a futurist, entrepreneur, and Big Data pioneer, Edwards shows how digital is wiping out conventional media industries; long-cherished ideas of privacy, history, and human interaction; governments and the national consensuses they're founded upon; approaches to education that have survived for centuries; professions like law, medicine, and accounting; foundational ideas of value and profit and more.Along the way, Edwards reveals the explosive implications of technical innovations like Google Glasses, previews the cyberwars and mass knowledge worker unemployment headed our way, and imagines the deep implications of a world where virtually all media is available all the time. Above all, he offers powerful advice for surviving the coming Digipocalypse in both your business and personal life - and maybe even coming away a winner.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2014

Reviews

[Benjamin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read that sweeps through the last 20 years of the digital industry. Check out this video by CGP Gray if you haven't seen it already Humans Need Not Apply. While the points Edwards addresses are more varied than than those in the video, you'll have a good overview of the issues. The author does not pretend to offer solutions to the onslaught of digital (which may be good point for the book) nor does he argue we can ever go back to a pre-digital world, the benefits of digital are just too great. He argues merely that society is unprepared for the digital shift. 3 stars since that's hardly a surprising conclusion. Author's recommendations seem to be the evaluation of your own personal use of technology and ensure it really aids your development a human being. Of course, this review is on a digital platform and the irony is not lost.