The Spike How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: St Martins Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
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Human life and the human condition are changing rapidly as we enter the new century. Dazzling scientific breakthroughs are changing how long we may live, where we live, how we dress, how we communicate, how we work and what work we do, and even how we think and imagine.
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Scientist Vernor Vinge proposed that humanity is approaching what he called the Singularity and what Damien Broderick has renamed the Spike: that moment in human history when heretofore unimaginable changes -- the advent of artificial intelligence, of human immortality, of nanotechnology -- occur with such rapidity and number that the human race will be transformed or destroyed. And that moment, many experts predict, is almost upon us. This book of wonders and dangers brings it all together to stretch our minds.
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