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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Artificial intelligence is advancing through learning, and machines are becoming more cognitive.
Chapter 3: Nanotechnology is unimaginably small but will be the next big force to transform our lives.
Chapter 4: We now possess the power to play God with our genetic blueprint.
Chapter 5: Everyone should have the power to own and profit from their complete personal data.
Chapter 6: We are in a new economic revolution that will upend current economic and social ideas.
Chapter 7: Humanity must craft strong ethics and rules for artificial intelligence, yet this will prove difficult.
Chapter 8: Technology could allow us to answer the riddle of whether we are alone in the cosmos.
Chapter 9: The singularity is on its way: it could grant us immortality – or wipe us out.
Description
Where Will Man Take Us? (2019) explores how, thanks to rapid technological advances, humanity has come to stand on the cusp of a great leap forward. In just decades, our economy, health and perhaps even our biology will be transformed; these blinks explore these developments and the difficult ethical and societal questions they pose.
Who Should Listen
- Mortals who hope one day to achieve immortality
- People who’d like to get to grips with the latest tech developments
- Big thinkers interested in the future of humanity and human society