Technology vs Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine,Gerd Leonhard

-About this book

Futurist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind’s urge to upgrade and automate everything-down to human biology itself-with our timeless quest for freedom and happiness. Before it’s too late, we must stop and ask the big questions: How do we embrace technology without becoming it? When it happens-gradually, then suddenly-the machine era will create the greatest watershed in human life on Earth.
Technology vs. Humanity is one of the last moral maps we’ll get as humanity enters the Jurassic Park of Big Tech. Artificial intelligence. Cognitive computing. The Singularity. Digital obesity. Printed food. The Internet of Things. The death of privacy. The end of work-as-we-know-it, and radical longevity: The imminent clash between technology and humanity is already rushing towards us. What moral values are you prepared to stand up for-before being human alters its meaning forever?
Gerd Leonhard is a new kind of futurist schooled in the humanities as much as in technology. In his most provocative book to date, he explores the exponential changes swamping our societies, providing rich insights and deep wisdom for business leaders, professionals and anyone with decisions to make in this new era. If you take being human for granted, press Reset now with this passionately argued call to create a genuinely braver new world.

-Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION  
CHAPTER 1: A Prologue to the Future   
CHAPTER 2: Tech vs. Us 
CHAPTER 3: The Megashifts 
CHAPTER 4: Automating Society  
CHAPTER 5: The Internet of Inhuman Things
CHAPTER 6: Magic to Manic to Toxic
CHAPTER 7: Digital Obesity: Our Latest Pandemic  
CHAPTER 8: Precaution vs. Proaction  
CHAPTER 9: Taking the Happenstance out of Happiness  
CHAPTER 10: Digital Ethics
CHAPTER 11: Earth 2030: Heaven or Hell?  
CHAPTER 12: Decision Time  
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
RESOURCES

-caractéristiques

Date de parution:6 septembre 2016

Éditeur : Independently published

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 200 pages

ISBN-10 : 1096496720

ISBN-13 : 978-1096496724

Poids de l’article : 272 g

Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.17 x 22.86 cm