Volker Lang - Digital Fluency: Understanding the Basics of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, Quantum Computing, and Their Applications for Digital Transformation

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If you are trying to make your organization fit for the 21st century, Digital Fluency is your ultimate guide. Enriched with numerous practical examples, valuable summaries and actionable frameworks, it provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the most exciting digital technologies of our time. Whether you are a business leader, start-up entrepreneur, policy maker or student, Digital Fluency gives you everything you need to get ready for the exciting digital future that lies ahead of us.

Rasmus Rothe, Founder of Merantix AG

In a tech world that is increasingly dominated by buzzwords, Digital Fluency will provide you with the necessary theoretical and practical background to make sense of digital key technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing. It will give todays business leaders a head start and is a top-priority read for anyone seeking to reshape our future by leveraging digital technologies.

Jean-Luc Scherer, CEO and Founder of Innoopolis

At the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, Volker Lang provides us with a forward-looking masterpiece that makes us all feel comfortable about the digital future. In Digital Fluency, students and professionals on the technical and business side will find valuable advice that will guide them on their transformative journey to their rightful place in the growing digital world. If you want to understand how artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing continue to augment the human experience, then this excellent guidebook is for you.

Greg Coquillo, LinkedIn 2020 Top Voice for AI and Data Science

By focusing on artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing and their real-world applications, Volker Lang has written an immediately accessible book which will equip employees and leaders of businesses alike with the requisite confidence to effect digital transformations. I cannot recommend reading Digital Fluency enough.

Vincent Anandraj, Managing Partner at Mynah Partners Ltd.

Digitization and digital transformation are the central topics of the 21st century. In his book, Volker Lang creates a fundamental understanding of the most important digital technologies and comprehensively describes their impact on industries and society. In the end, it becomes clear that no one can escape the future, but we all have an opportunity and obligation to shape it. A book for everyone seeking orientation in the digital age.

Christoph Bornschein, CEO and Founder of TLGG

Digital Fluency is an excellent introduction to future technologies beyond just buzzwords. Filled with numerous practical applications of digital technologies to your own line of work, it is highly recommended for all aspiring disruptors from students to seasoned executives.

Michael Berns, Director for AI & FinTech at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

As an industry, we have managed to transition artificial intelligence (AI) from research to a technology that is part of the lives of countless people around the world. And that is just the beginning! Digital Fluency provides excellent examples of how enterprises have embraced AI in a meaningful way.

Ewa Drr, Head of Product Strategy & Operations, Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence

Blockchain will, like no other technology, shape the years from 2020 to 2030. But it unfolds its true capabilities only in combination with other technologies. Digital Fluency provides an insightful introduction to exactly these key technologies constantly reshaping our world and presents a comprehensive overview of their potential applications. It promotes new digital thinking, skillfully inspires new applications and is therefore a compelling read for any leader.

Philipp Sandner, Professor at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC)

Volker Lang describes the most relevant cutting-edge technologies for solving the critical issues of our time in a clear and well-structured way, so that readers can contextualize and apply them within their own business activities. Digital Fluency is a compelling guide to digital value creation for investors, entrepreneurs and professionals of private and public organizations.

Alessandra Sollberger, Founder of Top Tier Impact (TTI) and Technology Investor

Digital technologies have shaped the past fifty years and new emerging digital technologies promise to shape our future. For example, quantum computers are moving out of physics labs they have reached a maturity in size and performance that puts them on the cusp of being able to beat conventional supercomputers in solving problems that matter. Digital Fluency presents a bang up-to-date perspective of the quantum computing industry today, from the quantum chips currently available on the cloud to the most exciting business applications being explored.