A very interesting look at some of the possible important trends emerging as a result of technological change largely. A look at how human potential is shifting as technology changes.
Some main themes:
- human immortality; the possibility of drastically increasing the human life span
- the slow, step-by-step ceding of control of decisions to technology (smartphones), big data and AI; what happens if (when?) AI begins to set its own priorities
- a brutal look at how humans have manipulated biology to produce the modern meat factory; the possibility that intelligent computers could come to treat humans in a similar fashion
- the importance of the stories we tell in the evolution of humans and society
- threats to liberalism as humans become less necessary as a work force
- the concept of living beings as algorithms; problems and issues with this idea
A brief summary. A very dense book. Worth rereading.
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