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Notable examples are the gerontologist Aubrey de Grey and the polymath and inventor Ray Kurzweil (winner of the 1999 US National Medal of Technology and Innovation). In 2012 Kurzweil was appointed a director of engineering at Google, and a year later Google launched a sub-company called Calico whose stated mission is ‘to solve death’.26
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Perhaps most important, artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and reengineer life.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God, ” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Gleick’s Chaos and Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
“Technology catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think. It changes people’s awareness of themselves, of one another, of their relationship with the world. The new machine that stands behind the flashing digital signal, unlike the clock, the telescope, or the train, is a machine that ‘thinks. ’ It challenges our notions not only of... See more
