Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane

By Brett King

Augmented describes how society will be impacted by technologies that will change the world more in the next 20 years than it has been changed in the past 250 years. China's artificial intelligence industry has been developing rapidly. The number of AI companies has increased from 57 in 2007 to 592 by June 2017, more than tenfold, according to a report released by Tencent Research Institute. Xi has set a visionary tone for China's AI development, which is to turn into a global AI leader in the coming 15 years.