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In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, a great inventor and futurist envisions an event--the "singularity"--in which technological change ... More

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Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. Kurzweil foresees the ... More

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In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological ... More

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Mulhall describes how nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence will transform the world by creating undreamed technologies. ... More

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In this controversial new book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of evolution. He contends that while ... More

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The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that ... More

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Bestselling author Garreau argues that an acceleration of technology is rapidly setting the course of the next stage of human evolution, raising ... More

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This collection of 447 annotated references provides an overview of the literature addressing the creation/evolution controversy for students, ... More

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Presents for the first time a fully developed and workable concept of cultural DNA.

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With the astounding advances in biotechnology, superhuman powers that were once the stuff of legend or comic-strip fantasy now seem within our reach. ... More

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Within the sphere of children's learning and play, the concept of robot and the application of actual robots are undergoing a dramatic expansion. ... More

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Discusses new advances in genetic science and examines the benefits, risks, and potential problems that these pose for the human community now and in ... More

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From Pygmalion falling for his chiselled Galatea, to Dr Frankenstein marvelling at his 'modern Prometheus', to the man-meets-machine fiction of ... More

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Ongoing research in nanotechnology promises both innovations and risks, potentially and profoundly changing the world. This book helps to promote a ... More

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Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms.

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To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to ... More

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Fire and light, and their impacts on our earliest human ancestor, are the subjects of this innovative study of the development of the species.

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A unique and entertaining look at the ethical issues in the computer science profession, this book tells the fictional story of a robot programmed to ... More

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Homo dominus redefines what it means to be human. Starting with the component pieces of human uniqueness-cognition, self-awareness, language, ... More

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