Ideas for Post-human Civilization
By Si Te Feng
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Most people imagine the future to be a wonderful place, perhaps even flawless. Just how good the future is? In the book: Ideas for Post-human Civilization, the author has a rather pessimistic view on this topic. Through convincing evidence, the book will show you some dangerous flaws that exist in the society today that might drive humanity to extinction in the future.
Si Te Feng
a futurist and tech enthusiast
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Ideas for Post-human Civilization - Si Te Feng
IDEAS FOR
POST-HUMAN CIVILIZATION
SI TE FENG
Copyright 2013 by Si Te Feng
in Toronto, Canada
Smashwords Edition
Let the journey begin,
time traveling 500 years into the future
Table of Contents
A. Introduction
B. Chapters
1) The Impending Doom
2) Not So Special Creatures
3) Hello, How Are You
4) Society Comes First
5) Future Intelligence
C. Epilogue
A. INTRODUCTION
O Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!
-The Tempest, William Shakespeare
The world today is changing at a very fast pace. Consider that only a decade ago, useful inventions such as the smartphone, Facebook, and Google Search didn’t even exist.
We’re entering an information era where scientific advancements is becoming easier and faster to achieve thanks to the help of new technologies and the ease of communication.
Within this exciting moment in time, an obvious question to ask is how will the world look like in a decade or a century? Aside from the easy predictions such as the computers will become more capable, a rule dictated by Moore’s Law, there are many more serious consequences that will result form the path that our society is currently taking. There are problems – especially moral dilemmas that will arise in the near future before the majority of people realizes and will significantly change everyone’s view of the world.
This book will introduce to you new concepts that are crucial for the understanding of the society in the near future, and describe main problems that will arise. This way, people can start thinking of the solutions for the difficult problems before things are out of control.
Some of the problems include the fact that the human brain is not so special after all, just a complex machine and can be fully simulated by a computer in about 40 years from