The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (951 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198754620 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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To most ems, it seems good to be an em.. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear.Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love.This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. When they
Raises the Standard for Futurist Writing Paul Sztorc This book is about the "Em", a virtual human mind with no physical body. Remember The Matrix (1999)? It's like that, but there's no hairless Keanu Reeves in a pink goo pod. Instead, Neo is just a file on a computer, in a server rack somewhere. If we need Neo to do two . Best book on the future I've ever read, though jargon heavy at times Nathan Taylor Robin Hanson has written the best book I've ever read on what the future may hold. Rather than explore many alternative possibilities, he deliberately picks a single future scenario to explore in great depth. Then leaves to others to work out alternates, building from . "Speculative future economic history at its first." according to Robert Rush. For those who are intellectually curious and willing to engage in serious discussions about cities filled with trillions of emulate human minds, you should read this book. It was one of the most fascinating nonfiction books I read in the past decade. Even though this r
Professor Hanson has master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, nine years experience in artificial intelligence research at Lockheed and NASA., a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, 2800 citations, and sixty academic publications, in economics, physics, computer science, philosophy, and more. Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and a research associate at the Fu
The Age of Em is that rare book that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of what is possible." --Tim O'Reilly, founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media"Here we have a systematic attempt to envisage what could well be the next technological disruption of the human condition: a world after the 'anthropocene' which does not conform to the usual ecological scenarios." -Steve Fuller, author Humanity 2.0"Hanson takes a few simple assumptions and relentlessly follows their implications to paint a fascinating and chillingly plausible posthuman future, realised in fractal-like detail. Far out? Yes. The Age of Em is a stimulating and unique book that will be valuable to anyone who wants to look past the next ten years to the next hundred and the next thousand." --Sean Carroll, Professor of Phys