ISBN : 9780198817826
Many thinkers believe that the next transformational change in human organization will be the onset of human-level artificial intelligence (the 'singularity'), and that the most likely method of achieving this will come through brain emulations or ems: the ability to scan human brains and program their connections into ever faster computers. Taking this as his starting point, Hanson describes what a world dominated by these ems will be like.
Introduction
Basics
1 Start
2 Modes
3 Framing
4 Assumptions
5 Implementation
Physics
6 Scales
7 Infrastructure
8 Appearances
9 Information
10 Existence
11 Farewells
Economics
12 Labor
13 Efficiency
14 Work
15 Business
16 Growth
17 Lifecycle
Organization
18 Clumping
19 Groups
20 Conflict
21 Politics
22 Rules
Sociology
23 Mating
24 Signals
25 Collaboration
26 Society
27 Minds
Implications
28 Variations
29 Choices
30 Finale