For thousands of years, human vision has been largely unchanged by
evolution.
We're about to get a software update.
Today, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Snap, Samsung, and a host of
startups are racing to radically change the way we see. The building
blocks are already falling into place: cloud computing and 5G networks,
AI computer vision algorithms, smart glasses and VR headsets, and mixed
reality games like Pokémon GO. But what's coming next is a fundamental
shift in how we experience the world and interact with each other.
Over the next decade, what we see and how we see it will no longer be
bound by biology. Instead, our everyday vision will be augmented with
digital information to give us what spatial computing pioneer David Rose
calls "SuperSight." And as our view of the world becomes blended layers
of information delivered via glasses, contact lenses, or projected
light, it will fundamentally change learning, shopping, work, play, and
much, much more.
David provides an insider's guide to the way our lives are about to
change, while also unpacking the downsides of this coming world--what he
calls the hazards of SuperSight, from equity and access issues to bubble
filter problems--and proposing rational, actionable ways around them.
From AI mirrors that advise us on our outfits, to museums that let us
talk with deceased explorers and artists, to the ways we envision
sustainable cities, the scope of augmented vision is boundless.
SuperSight offers a rich speculative preview of the future and its
implications, both shocking and thrilling.
