Preface: Taming the future -- Society and culture: how we came to love our machines more than each other -- Media and communications: why instant communication is killing the art of conversation -- Science and technology: is it safe to build a parallal universe in your spare bedroom? -- Economy and money: is digital cash making us careless? -- Healthcare and medicine: can we ever acquire immunity against loneliness? -- Automotive and transport: where might self-driving cars eventually take us? -- Education and knowledge: what happens to learning when your teacher is an app? -- Work and employment: why the future might look a lot like the Middle Ages -- Home and family: remember we lived and loved in analog -- Art and war: the search for (and submission to) something far larger than ourselves -- Conclusions and suggestions: a simple question that hardly anyone is asking.

From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow. 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? What do we want these technologies to achieve on our behalf? What are they capable of, and - as they transform the media, the economy, healthcare, education, work, and the home - what kind of lives do we want to lead? Richard Watson hereby extends an exuberant invitation for us to think deeply about the world of today and envision what kind of world we wish to create in the future. In a fascinating and accessible way, Digital vs Human examines the possible effects of technology on every area of our lives