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Singularity Rising - Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World (Paperback, New)
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Singularity Rising - Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World (Paperback, New)
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In Ray Kurzweil's New York Times bestseller The Singularity is
Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a
likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The
Singularity is triggered by the tremendous growth of human and
computing intelligence that is an almost inevitable outcome of
Moore's Law. Since the book's publication, the coming of the
Singularity is now eagerly anticipated by many of the leading
thinkers in Silicon Valley, from PayPal mastermind Peter Thiel to
Google co-founder Larry Page. The formation of the Singularity
University, and the huge popularity of the Singularity website
kurzweilai.com, speak to the importance of this intellectual
movement. But what about the average person? How will the
Singularity affect our daily lives-our jobs, our families, and our
wealth? Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter,
Richer, and More Dangerous World focuses on the implications of a
future society faced with an abundance of human and artificial
intelligence. James D. Miller, an economics professor and popular
speaker on the Singularity, reveals how natural selection has been
increasing human intelligence over the past few thousand years and
speculates on how intelligence enhancements will shape civilization
over the next forty years. Miller considers several possible
scenarios in this coming singularity: * A merger of man and machine
making society fantastically wealthy and nearly immortal *
Competition with billions of cheap AIs drive human wages to almost
nothing while making investors rich * Businesses rethink investment
decisions to take into account an expected future period of intense
creative destruction * Inequality drops worldwide as technologies
mitigate the cognitive cost of living in impoverished environments
* Drugs designed to fight Alzheimer's disease and keep soldiers
alert on battlefields have the fortunate side effect of increasing
all of their users' IQs, which, in turn, adds a percentage points
to worldwide economic growth Singularity Rising offers predictions
about the economic implications for a future of widely expanding
intelligence and practical career and investment advice on
flourishing on the way to the Singularity.
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