The Path to Posthumanity: Aspects Of Near-Future Science And Technology

by Ben Goertzel

This work describes the near future technologies and scientific changes that will effect human life in the next 25 years. Artifical intelligence is a major theme of this book as is computing and biotech. The author argues we are in a transitional period in which the major changes of the next quarter century are only barely genome research, human enhancement, computer to computer research, bioinformatics to mention only a few. The author has a qualitative paradigm of what lies ahead and what the AI community can contribute to shaping and creating a world in which both rich, developing and poor nations can benefit. His “posthumanity” posits machine to machine intelligence with potentially positive results for mankind.

284 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2006

Reviews

[Stephan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book would be better if they'd put my name, as I am the co-author, on the friggin' cover -- and if they'd charged a reasonable enough price for it that anyone ever bought it.