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Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Robin Hanson draws on decades of expertise in economics, physics, and computer science to paint a detailed picture of this next great era in human (and machine) evolution - the age of em.
Plenty of futurists and science fiction writers have toyed with the idea that the brains of particular humans could one day be scanned and uploaded into artificial hardware but Prof Hanson's take is different. His aim is to use standard theories from the physical, human and social sciences to make forecasts about how this technological breakthrough would really change our world... the book is crammed full of such fascinating visions of an imagined future.
This hellish cyberworld is quite cool to think about in a dystopian Matrixy way. ... brilliantly weird extrapolation
Mr. Hanson's book is comprehensive and not put-downable. The author has thought of everything. He's anticipated every one of my objections, including the manifestly unscientific one of how creepy this all sounds... Even if you aren't interested in the future, The Age of Em provides a wonderful overview of the current social psychology of productivity... What is remarkable... is not just the detail... but the way he situates it within a perceptive analysis of our human past and present.
There is no doubt that what Hanson is doing here is truly fascinating... any science fiction author worth his or her salt should be rushing out and buying a copy of this book
Fascinating
Robin Hanson brings intelligence, imagination, and courage to some of the most profound questions humanity will be dealing with in the middle-term future. The Age of Em is a stimulating and unique book that will be valuable to anyone who wants to look past the next ten years to the next hundred and the next thousand.
What happens when a first-rate economist applies his rigor, breadth, and curiosity to the sci-fi topic of whole brain emulations? This book is what happens. There's nothing else like it, and it will blow your (current) mind.
A highly provocative vision of a technologically advanced future that may or may not come true -- but if it does, we'll be glad Robin wrote this book now.
In this brilliant analysis, Robin Hanson shows that our hyper-smart "downloaded" -- or emulated -- heirs will still have ambitions, triumphs and thwarted desires. They'll make alliances, compete, cooperate ... and very-likely love ... all driven by immutable laws of nature and economics. Super intelligence may be a lot more like us than you imagined.
Robin Hanson provides a richly detailed portrait of a future society where brain emulation is widespread. Drawing on physics, economics, sociology, history, and a host of other disciplines, he describes a world that is wonderfully strange and yet strikingly familiar. Far out? Yes. Fascinating? That too.
A fascinating thought experiment about the future, written with clarity and verve by somebody who thinks very deeply and freely.
Robin Hanson has a remarkable mind and has written a remarkable book. Whether you agree or disagree with each of his specific predictions, each page will entice you to think more deeply.
There are different paths to the Technological Singularity. In The Age of Em Robin Hanson explores one such possibility. With this book, Hanson owns the Em scenario.
Robin Hanson is a thinker like no other on this planet: someone so unconstrained by convention, so unflinching in spelling out the consequences of ideas, that even the most cosmopolitan reader is likely to find him as bracing (and head-clearing) as a mouthful of wasabi.
Robin Hanson's new tour de force will dazzle and delight you. Anyone who loves books should read The Age of Em.
The Age of Em combines Hanson's expertise in social science and artificial intelligence to paint a stunning vision of the future of intelligent life. The result is a noble effort to subordinate science fiction to science.
Robin Hanson integrates ferocious future forces: robotics, artificial intelligence, overpopulation, economic stagnation -- and comes up with a detailed, striking set of futures we can have, if we think harder.
Robin Hanson is one of the most original thinkers in the world -- and this fascinating account of our future society is like nothing you'll read anywhere else. Astonishing stuff.
Hanson is pioneering a new style of science fiction: using calculations rather than mere stories to imagine what a world of artificial humans would be like.
The Age of Em is a rare wonder: a book both fully intellectually rigorous, and boldly embracing of the radical possibilities the future holds. Far more clearly than from any work of mere science fiction, one gleans from Hanson's book a clear idea of what a future world dominated by brain emulations or 'Ems' might actually be like.
Nobody else could have explored the implications of whole-brain emulation in such visionary yet plausible detail. It's one of the most important books you'll ever read.
Carefully reasoned, thoroughly researched, and incisively argued, this book will change the way you look at our uploaded future, and the entire concept of the Singularity.
Most futurism is remarkable chiefly for its lack of imagination. The Age of Em is that rare book that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of what is possible.
Here we have a systematic attempt to envisage what could well be the next technological disruption of the human condition: a world after the 'anthropocene' which does not conform to the usual ecological scenarios.
Hanson takes a few simple assumptions and relentlessly follows their implications to paint a fascinating and chillingly plausible posthuman future, realised in fractal-like detail. A tour de force of rigorous speculation that draws equally upon physics, economics and neuroscience, every page of The Age of Em brims with fascinating ideas.
The best way to predict the future may be to create it, but to create it you first must study it. Read this book!
Hanson puts Nostradamus to shame, foretelling humans moving from flesh and blood to abstract immortal "emulations", computer programs made of bits, our civilization uploading to gigahertz processors exchanging gigabytes 24/7.
Hanson honors the physics and the likely future economics of emulated minds. Students of AI, virtual reality, economics, and science can benefit in multiple ways from this extraordinary work of thoughtful and courageous technological forecasting.
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Professor Hanson has master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, nine years experience in artificial intelligence research at Lockheed and N.A.S.A., a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, 2800 citations, and sixty academic publications, in economics, physics, computer science, philosophy, and more. He blogs at OvercomingBias.com, and has pioneered the field of prediction markets since 1988.
Plenty of futurists and science fiction writers have toyed with the idea that the brains of particular humans could one day be scanned and uploaded into artificial hardware but Prof Hanson's take is different. His aim is to use standard theories from the physical, human and social sciences to make forecasts about how this technological breakthrough would really change our world... the book is crammed full of such fascinating visions of an imagined future.
This hellish cyberworld is quite cool to think about in a dystopian Matrixy way. ... brilliantly weird extrapolation
Mr. Hanson's book is comprehensive and not put-downable. The author has thought of everything. He's anticipated every one of my objections, including the manifestly unscientific one of how creepy this all sounds... Even if you aren't interested in the future, The Age of Em provides a wonderful overview of the current social psychology of productivity... What is remarkable... is not just the detail... but the way he situates it within a perceptive analysis of our human past and present.
There is no doubt that what Hanson is doing here is truly fascinating... any science fiction author worth his or her salt should be rushing out and buying a copy of this book
Fascinating
Robin Hanson brings intelligence, imagination, and courage to some of the most profound questions humanity will be dealing with in the middle-term future. The Age of Em is a stimulating and unique book that will be valuable to anyone who wants to look past the next ten years to the next hundred and the next thousand.
What happens when a first-rate economist applies his rigor, breadth, and curiosity to the sci-fi topic of whole brain emulations? This book is what happens. There's nothing else like it, and it will blow your (current) mind.
A highly provocative vision of a technologically advanced future that may or may not come true -- but if it does, we'll be glad Robin wrote this book now.
In this brilliant analysis, Robin Hanson shows that our hyper-smart "downloaded" -- or emulated -- heirs will still have ambitions, triumphs and thwarted desires. They'll make alliances, compete, cooperate ... and very-likely love ... all driven by immutable laws of nature and economics. Super intelligence may be a lot more like us than you imagined.
Robin Hanson provides a richly detailed portrait of a future society where brain emulation is widespread. Drawing on physics, economics, sociology, history, and a host of other disciplines, he describes a world that is wonderfully strange and yet strikingly familiar. Far out? Yes. Fascinating? That too.
A fascinating thought experiment about the future, written with clarity and verve by somebody who thinks very deeply and freely.
Robin Hanson has a remarkable mind and has written a remarkable book. Whether you agree or disagree with each of his specific predictions, each page will entice you to think more deeply.
There are different paths to the Technological Singularity. In The Age of Em Robin Hanson explores one such possibility. With this book, Hanson owns the Em scenario.
Robin Hanson is a thinker like no other on this planet: someone so unconstrained by convention, so unflinching in spelling out the consequences of ideas, that even the most cosmopolitan reader is likely to find him as bracing (and head-clearing) as a mouthful of wasabi.
Robin Hanson's new tour de force will dazzle and delight you. Anyone who loves books should read The Age of Em.
The Age of Em combines Hanson's expertise in social science and artificial intelligence to paint a stunning vision of the future of intelligent life. The result is a noble effort to subordinate science fiction to science.
Robin Hanson integrates ferocious future forces: robotics, artificial intelligence, overpopulation, economic stagnation -- and comes up with a detailed, striking set of futures we can have, if we think harder.
Robin Hanson is one of the most original thinkers in the world -- and this fascinating account of our future society is like nothing you'll read anywhere else. Astonishing stuff.
Hanson is pioneering a new style of science fiction: using calculations rather than mere stories to imagine what a world of artificial humans would be like.
The Age of Em is a rare wonder: a book both fully intellectually rigorous, and boldly embracing of the radical possibilities the future holds. Far more clearly than from any work of mere science fiction, one gleans from Hanson's book a clear idea of what a future world dominated by brain emulations or 'Ems' might actually be like.
Nobody else could have explored the implications of whole-brain emulation in such visionary yet plausible detail. It's one of the most important books you'll ever read.
Carefully reasoned, thoroughly researched, and incisively argued, this book will change the way you look at our uploaded future, and the entire concept of the Singularity.
Most futurism is remarkable chiefly for its lack of imagination. The Age of Em is that rare book that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of what is possible.
Here we have a systematic attempt to envisage what could well be the next technological disruption of the human condition: a world after the 'anthropocene' which does not conform to the usual ecological scenarios.
Hanson takes a few simple assumptions and relentlessly follows their implications to paint a fascinating and chillingly plausible posthuman future, realised in fractal-like detail. A tour de force of rigorous speculation that draws equally upon physics, economics and neuroscience, every page of The Age of Em brims with fascinating ideas.
The best way to predict the future may be to create it, but to create it you first must study it. Read this book!
Hanson puts Nostradamus to shame, foretelling humans moving from flesh and blood to abstract immortal "emulations", computer programs made of bits, our civilization uploading to gigahertz processors exchanging gigabytes 24/7.
Hanson honors the physics and the likely future economics of emulated minds. Students of AI, virtual reality, economics, and science can benefit in multiple ways from this extraordinary work of thoughtful and courageous technological forecasting.
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Professor Hanson has master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, nine years experience in artificial intelligence research at Lockheed and N.A.S.A., a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, 2800 citations, and sixty academic publications, in economics, physics, computer science, philosophy, and more. He blogs at OvercomingBias.com, and has pioneered the field of prediction markets since 1988.