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Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century

by Elise Bohan
RM52.00 MYR
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century

A bold map of humanity’s next leap

If you like big-idea nonfiction that feels both thrilling and unsettling, this one really gets under your skin. Elise Bohan looks straight at AI, life extension, automation, and even the future of love and reproduction, without softening the stakes. It’s the kind of book that makes you feel excited, uneasy, and very awake to how radically this century could reshape being human.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century

by Elise Bohan
RM52.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781742236759
Authors: Elise Bohan
Publisher: NewSouth
Date of Publication: 2022-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Philosophy, Science
Related Topics: Genetics, Gender, Computers, Feminism, Biology, Social Issues
Goodreads rating: 3.96
(rated by 112 readers)

Description

In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we’re hurtling toward a superhuman future — or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens, and unaligned AI, is up to us. We’ll need more technology to safeguard our future — and we’re going to invent (and perhaps merge with) some of that technology. What does that mean for our 21st-century life scripts? Are the robots coming for our jobs? How will human relationships change when AI knows us inside out? Will we still be having human babies by the century’s end? Bohan unflinchingly explores the possibilities most of us are afraid to face: the impacts of automation on our jobs, livelihoods, and dating and mating; the stretching out of the circle of life as life-extension technologies mature; the rise of AI friends and lovers; the liberation of women from pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding; and the looming global baby bust — and the attendant proliferation of digital minds. Strap in for an exhilarating, and starkly honest, take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century.
 

A bold map of humanity’s next leap

If you like big-idea nonfiction that feels both thrilling and unsettling, this one really gets under your skin. Elise Bohan looks straight at AI, life extension, automation, and even the future of love and reproduction, without softening the stakes. It’s the kind of book that makes you feel excited, uneasy, and very awake to how radically this century could reshape being human.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.