Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species - Softcover

Nowak, Peter

9780864928702: Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species

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ISBN 10: 086492870X ISBN 13: 9780864928702

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2015

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Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new tools became technology.

As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of innovation is accelerating exponentially. Breakthroughs from robotics to genetics appear almost on a daily basis. It's all happening so quickly that it's hard to keep track — but recently there's been a shift. With vaccinations, in-vitro fertilization, and individual genetic therapy, we're entering a new epoch, a next step, faster and more dramatic than the shift from Australopithicines to Homo Sapiens. The technology that set us apart from our earliest selves is becoming part of the evolutionary process. Advancements in computing, robotics, nanotechnology, neurology, and genetics mean that our wildest imaginings could soon become commonplace.

Peter Nowak deftly presents the potential outcomes — both exciting and frightening — of key, rapidly advancing technologies and adroitly explores both the ramifications of adopting them and what doing so will reveal about the future of our species. We've come a long way in 4 million years. Welcome to Humans 3.0.

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About the Author

Peter Nowak is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and syndicated blogger. He has been an editor and writer for the Globe and Mail, and a correspondent for the Boston Globe, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post, the National Post, the Vancouver Sun, and the Toronto Star. While working in New Zealand, he was named the technology journalist of the year by the Telecommunications Users Association; back in Canada, he won the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance award for excellence in science and technology reporting. He is now a syndicated blogger for Maclean's, Canadian Business and regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, the Huffington Post, MSN, CBC and the New Scientist. His first book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know It, was a national bestseller and was published in Canada, the UK,

From the Back Cover

Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools four million years ago, but they couldn't record their experiences or converse effectively. Better communication led to the first technologies. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, fires became ovens.

As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of innovation is accelerating. The technology that set us apart from our earliest selves is now becoming part of the evolutionary preocess. We used to create technology to change the world around us, now we're using it to change ourselves. As Humans 3.0 suggests, our wildest imaginings could soon become commonplace.

Peter Nowak deftly presents the potential outcomes — both exciting and frightening — of rapidly advancing innovations in computing, robotics, and genetics and explores the ramifications of adopting them. We've come a long way in four million years. Welcome to Humans 3.0.