Next Step, the: Exponential Life
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Author: De Grey, Aubrey
The Next Step presents essays on the potential of what are known as "exponential technologies" -- those whose development is accelerating rapidly, such as robotics, artificial intelligence or industrial biology -- considering their economic, social, environmental, ethical and even ontological implications. This book's premise is that humanity is at the beginning of a technological revolution that is evolving at a much faster pace than earlier ones.Contributors include Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey, Jonathan Rossiter, Joseph A. Paradiso, Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Helen Papagiannis, Jay David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Robin Hanson, Stuart Russell, Darrell M. West, Francisco Gonzalez, Chris Skinner, Steven Monroe Lipkin, S. Matthew Liao, James Giordano, Luciano Floridi, Sean O Heigeartaigh and Martin Rees.
ISBN 9788416714452. Turner. pb. 408 pages, 160 colour. 19.7 x 26 cm.
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The Next Step presents essays on the potential of what are known as "exponential technologies" -- those whose development is accelerating rapidly, such as robotics, artificial intelligence or industrial biology -- considering their economic, social, environmental, ethical and even ontological implications. This book's premise is that humanity is at the beginning of a technological revolution that is evolving at a much faster pace than earlier ones.Contributors include Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey, Jonathan Rossiter, Joseph A. Paradiso, Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Helen Papagiannis, Jay David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Robin Hanson, Stuart Russell, Darrell M. West, Francisco Gonzalez, Chris Skinner, Steven Monroe Lipkin, S. Matthew Liao, James Giordano, Luciano Floridi, Sean O Heigeartaigh and Martin Rees.
ISBN 9788416714452. Turner. pb. 408 pages, 160 colour. 19.7 x 26 cm.
available