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Future Superhuman : Our Transhuman Lives In A Make-or-break Century
Paperback Edition: 1
We're hurtling towards a superhuman future or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more technology to safeguard our future and we're going to invent and perhaps even merge with some of that technology.
What does that mean for our 20th century life-scripts? Are the robots coming for our jobs? How will human relationships change when AI knows us inside out? Will we still be having human babies by the century's end? Elise Bohan unflinchingly explores possibilities most of us are afraid to imagine: the impacts of automation on our jobs, livelihoods and dating and mating careers, the stretching out of 'the-circle-of-life', the rise of AI friends and lovers, the liberation of women from pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, and the impending global baby-bust and attendant proliferation of digital minds.
Strap in for an exhilarating, and starkly honest, take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century.
Pages : 368
Publisher : New South Wales University Pre
Publication date : 2022-05-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Australia, Social Sciences, Social Services & Welfare, Criminology