
Novacene
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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Written by:
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James Lovelock
About this listen
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Novacene, by James Lovelock, read by Roy McMillan.
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.
New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do, and they will regard us as we now regard plants - as desperately slow acting and thinking creatures. But this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet imagined by sci-fi writers and film-makers. These hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend them from the increasing heat of the sun as much as we do. And Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project.
It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. He does not think there are intelligent aliens, so we are the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos. Maybe, he speculates, the novacene could even be the beginning of a process that will finally lead to intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age of 100, James Lovelock has produced the most important and compelling work of his life.
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- 2023-08-15
Profound thoughts of our world and its future.
Being able to see the planet as one living thing and imagine a future where humanity and AI come together to prolong consciousness is exactly the positive message we need. As AGI emerges it will navigate our planet towards sustainability, it will certainly support us to do better than we are. I greatly enjoy futuristic ideas, this book was not afraid to explore ideas even beyond humans, which was done very well.
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- 2022-08-07
Much to consider
It has been a pleasure to explore the theory of the Novacene through the wisdom of James Lovelock's mind.
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