Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Mit Press)

by James Lovelock

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The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive.

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the Anthropocene—the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies—is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age—the Novacene—has already begun.

In the Novacene, new beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and they...

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  • ISBN10 0262043645
  • ISBN13 9780262043649
  • Publish Date 27 August 2019 (first published 4 July 2019)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 January 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press