Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century by Elise Bohan

"Elise Bohan is your travel guide to the future of human minds and bodies. Enjoy the trip - your guide is as sharp, savvy, lively and entertaining as you could ever want."
    - Rssell Blackford

We're hurting towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crisis, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more technology to safeguard our future - and we're going to invent and perhaps even merge with some of that technology.

What does that mean for our 20th Century life-scripts? Are the robots coming for our jobs? How will human relationships change when AI knows us inside out? Will we still be having human babies by the century's end? Elise Bohan unflinchingly explores possibilities most of us are afraid to imagine: the impacts of automation on our jobs, livelihoods and dating and mating careers, the stretching out of 'the-circle-of-life', the rise of AI friends and lovers, the liberation of women from pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, and the impending global baby-bust - and attendant proliferation of digital media.

Strap in for an exhilarating, and starkly honest, take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century. 

Genres: Nonfiction - Philosophy - Science - Technology
Condition: Very good
Published: 2022 by Newsouth
Pages: 343
ISBN: 9781742236759
Weight: 390g