{"id":11335,"date":"2023-08-28T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/28\/the-coming-wave-by-mustafa-suleyman-review-ai-synthetic-biology-and-a-new-dawn-for-humanity\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T06:37:20","slug":"the-coming-wave-by-mustafa-suleyman-review-ai-synthetic-biology-and-a-new-dawn-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/28\/the-coming-wave-by-mustafa-suleyman-review-ai-synthetic-biology-and-a-new-dawn-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review \u2013 AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DeepMind co-founder calls for the \u2018containment\u2019 of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for us<\/p>\n

What is it with wave metaphors? Technological determinists \u2013 people who believe that technology drives history \u2013 love them. Think of Alvin Toffler<\/a>, who saw the history of civilisation as a succession of three such waves (agricultural, industrial and post-industrial). The idea is of immense power, unstoppable, moving inexorably towards us as we cower before its immensity, much as the dinosaurs must have done when they saw the mile-high tsunami<\/a> heading in their direction.<\/p>\n

Mustafa Suleyman says he is not a determinist, but at times he sounds awfully like one. \u201cAt its heart,\u201d he writes at one point, \u201ctechnology emerges to fill human needs. If people have powerful reasons to build and use it, it will get built and used. Yet in most discussions of technology people still get stuck on what it is, forgetting why it was created in the first place. This is not about some innate techno-determinism. This is about what it means to be human.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe DeepMind co-founder calls for the \u2018containment\u2019 of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for us
\nWhat is it with wave metaphors? Technological determinists \u2013 people who believe that technology drives history \u2013 love them. Think of Alvin Toffler, who saw the history of civilisation as a succession of three such waves (agricultural, industrial and post-industrial). The idea is of immense power, unstoppable, moving inexorably towards us as we cower before its immensity, much as the dinosaurs must have done when they saw the mile-high tsunami heading in their direction.
\nMustafa Suleyman says he is not a determinist, but at times he sounds awfully like one. \u201cAt its heart,\u201d he writes at one point, \u201ctechnology emerges to fill human needs. If people have powerful reasons to build and use it, it will get built and used. Yet in most discussions of technology people still get stuck on what it is, forgetting why it was created in the first place. This is not about some innate techno-determinism. This is about what it means to be human.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DeepMind co-founder calls for the \u2018containment\u2019 of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for us What is it with wave metaphors? Technological determinists \u2013 people who believe that technology drives history \u2013 love them. Think of Alvin Toffler, who saw the history of civilisation as a …<\/p>\n

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