Here be dragons : science, technology and the future of humanity / Olle Häggström.

The 21st century will most likely see even more revolutionary changes than the 20th, due to advances in science, technology and medicine. Particular areas where extraordinary and perhaps disruptive advances can be expected include biotechnology, nanotechnology, and machine intelligence. We may also...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Häggström, Olle (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Technology and civilization.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Physical Description:ix, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Science, technology and the future of humanity.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Science for good and science for bad
  • Our planet and its biosphere
  • Engineering better humans?
  • Computer revolution
  • Going nano
  • What is science?
  • The fallacious Doomsday Argument
  • Doomsday nevertheless?
  • Space colonization and the Fermi Paradox
  • What do we want and what should we do?