Next Step: Exponential Life - Softcover

Aubrey, De Grey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8416714452 ISBN 13: 9788416714452

Publisher: Turner Publicaciones, S.L., 2017

Synopsis

BBVA launched this collection of books in 2008, coinciding with the first edition of the Frontiers of Knowledge Prizes awarded by the Fundacion BBVA. The enthusiasm generated by the first books in this series led them to create OpenMind (www.bbvaopenmind.com), an online community designed to generate and spread knowledge for the benefit of society. Ultimately, the broad spectrum of subjects covered by OpenMind (including science, technology, economics, the environment, and the humanities) reflects BBVA's commitment to helping people understand the main phenomena that affect their lives and shape their futures. This year the BBVA presents a schematic view of the potential of what are known as 'exponential technologies', considering their economic, social, environmental, ethical, and even ontological implications. This book's fundamental theme is that humanity is at the beginning of a technological revolution, one which is evolving at a much faster pace than earlier ones. This explosion of ingenuity will be so far reaching that it is destined to generate transformations we can only begin to imagine in the present day.

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About the Author

Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey, SENS Research Foundation, Mountain View, CA, USA; Jonathan Rossiter, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Swindon, UK; Joseph A. Paradiso, Responsive Environments Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA; Kevin Warwick, Coventry University, Coventry, UK; Huma Shah, Coventry University, Coventry, UK; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA). Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain; Helen Papagiannis, Artist, writer and new digital media researcher; Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; Maria Engberg. Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; Robin Hanson. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Stuart Russell. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Darrell M. West, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA; Francisco Gonzalez, BBVA Group Executive Chairman; Chris Skinner, Financial Services Club, Essex, UK; Steven Monroe Lipkin, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, USA; S. Matthew Liao, Center for Bioethics | New York University, New York, USA; James Giordano, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA; Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Sean O Heigeartaigh, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), Cambridge, UK; Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Turner Publicaciones, S.L.
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8416714452
• ISBN 13: 9788416714452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408