Ebook: Novacene: the Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive.;Intro; Contents; Preface; Part One: The Knowing Cosmos; 1: We Are Alone; 2: The Edge of Extinction; 3: Learning to Think; 4: Why We Are Here; 5: The New Knowers; Part Two: The Age of Fire; 6: Thomas Newcomen; 7: A New Age; 8: Acceleration; 9: War; 10: Cities; 11: The World is Too Much With Us . . .; 12: The Heat Threat; 13: Good or Bad?; 14: A Shout of Joy; Part Three: Into the Novacene; 15: AlphaGo; 16: Engineering the New Age; 17: The Bit; 18: Beyond Human; 19: Talking to the Spheres; 20: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace; 21: Thinking Weapons; 22: Our Place in Their World