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Novacene - The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardcover)
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James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest
environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new
theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the
anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale
technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age -
the novacene - has already begun. New beings will emerge from
existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000
times faster than we do and they will regard us as we now regard
plants - as desperately slow acting and thinking creatures. But
this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet
imagined by sci-fi writers and film-makers. These hyper-intelligent
beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are.
They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend them
from the increasing heat of the sun as much as we do. And Gaia
depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project. It is
crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives
and prospers. He does not think there are intelligent aliens, so we
are the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos. Maybe, he
speculates, the novacene could even be the beginning of a process
that will finally lead to intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos.
At the age 100, James Lovelock has produced the most important and
compelling work of his life.
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