Novacene: The Coming Age Of Hyperintelligence | (Mit Press)
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A fascinating new study from the originator of the Gaia Theory, “who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin” (Independent) One of the world’s leading scientific thinkers offers a vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence unite to save the Earth. 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. In the Novacene, 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. But this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet imagined by science fiction. And Gaia depends on organic life. It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. Perhaps, 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 of 100, James Lovelock has produced the most important and compelling work of his life.
| Item weight | 1.1 kg |
| SKID | 0691457790033 |
| Manufacturer | The MIT Press |
| Author | Lovelock, James |
| Binding | paperback |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Publication date | 20201110 |
| EAN | 9780262539517 |
