Films from the future : the technology and morality of sci-fi movies /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Coral Gables :
Mango Publishing,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Copyright; Table of Contents; Chapter One; Beginnings; Welcome to the Future; The Power of Convergence; Socially Responsible Innovation; A Common Point of Focus; Spoiler Alert; Chapter Two; When Dinosaurs Ruled the World; De-Extinction; Could We, Should We?; The Butterfly Effect; Visions of Power; Chapter Three; Sins of Futures Past; Cloning; Genuinely Human?; Too Valuable to Fail?; Chapter Four; Criminal Intent; The "Science" of Predicting Bad Behavior; Criminal Brain Scans; Machine Learning-Based Precognition; Big Brother, Meet Big Data; Chapter Five; A Pill for Everything
- The Seduction of Self-EnhancementNootropics; If You Could, Would You?; Privileged Technology; Our Obsession with Intelligence; Chapter Six; The Poor Shall Inherit the Earth; Bioprinting Our Future Bodies; The Disposable Workforce; Living in an Automated Future; Chapter Seven; Through a Glass Darkly; Body Hacking; More than "Human"?; Plugged In, Hacked Out; Your Corporate Body; Chapter Eight; Plato's Cave; The Lure of Permissionless Innovation; Technologies of Hubris; Superintelligence; Defining Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Manipulation; Chapter Nine; Visions of the Future
- Technological ConvergenceEnter the Neo-Luddites; Techno-Terrorism; Exponential Extrapolation; Make-Believe in the Age of the Singularity; Chapter Ten; There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom; Mastering the Material World; Myopically Benevolent Science; Never Underestimate the Status Quo; It's Good to Talk; Chapter Eleven; Decoding Make-Believe; Weaponizing the Genome; Immoral Logic?; The Honest Broker; Dictating the Future; Chapter Twelve; Our Changing Climate; Fragile States; A Planetary "Microbiome"; The Rise of the Anthropocene; Building Resiliency; Geoengineering the Future; Chapter Thirteen. An Awful Waste of SpaceMore than Science Alone; Occam's Razor; What If We're Not Alone?; Chapter Fourteen; Acknowledgments