In Digitally Curious: Your Guide to Navigating The Future of AI and All Things Tech, author, AI expert and one of 2024’s top futurist speakers Andrew Grill provides the ultimate guide to becoming a more confident, capable and curious user of new and emerging technologies.
Drawing on the author’s 30+ years of experience in the technology industry, including as a former IBM Global Managing Partner, and featuring revealing insights from interviews with over 60 global business leaders, this book separates the facts from the fiction and provides straightforward, practical explanations of what you really need to know about the digital trends shaping the world we live in.
Grill is known as The Actionable Futurist, having delivered over 550 keynote presentations to senior business leaders in over 40 countries, and his practical approach to helping organisations stay ahead of digital change is evident in every page. This book demystifies over 200 technology concepts – including blockchain, bitcoin, quantum computing, the metaverse, and much more – and is packed with engaging discussion points designed to spark your digital curiosity, from looking back at the history of AI all the way to the future of work and impact of our digital legacies.
Each chapter ends with a brilliant feature called the ‘Curious Five’, a series of easily actionable steps to help readers put their learnings into practice. The book also features an extensive glossary of key terms with expert definitions that enable readers to cross-reference the latest buzzwords and become digitally fluent.
If you are a manager or executive team undertaking digital transformation projects but are unsure what to prioritise, this book offers a blueprint to help you contextualise where new technologies can fit into your workplace and what needs to be done for them to have the most impact. For employees, there is also lots of advice on how to use new technologies like ChatGPT effectively at work, why your digital first impression could be affecting your chances of securing a new job, and why being digitally curious is critical for your career’s long-term success.
Described as a ‘self-help guide for the technically overwhelmed’, Digitally Curious is the perfect resource for business leaders, tech enthusiasts, and anyone curious about how digital innovations will change our lives in the years to come.
Digitally Curious: Your Guide to Navigating the Future of AI and All Things Tech by Andrew Grill is published by Wiley on 26 September 2024. More information on the book can be found at digitallycurious.ai
