First Online28 February 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5629-9_25
Publisher NameApress, Berkeley, CA
Print ISBN978-1-4842-5628-2
Online ISBN978-1-4842-5629-9
Inquiry into knowledge & tech
First Online28 February 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5629-9_25
Publisher NameApress, Berkeley, CA
Print ISBN978-1-4842-5628-2
Online ISBN978-1-4842-5629-9
I got this book into my hands while researching potential models for human & AI Apprentice cooperation. The wonderful essence of Tom’s book is to imagine how people and computers will interact on a massive scale to create intelligent systems. The author is both a management consultant and organizational theorist, as well as a Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His thinking about the impact of technology and the harnessing of both human and artificial minds make most of our thoughts on that subject seem… infantile.
Here’s my visual depiction of quotes & concepts I listed when thoroughly reading the book:
Superminds
by Thomas W. Malone
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Published: May 2018
Length: 384 pages
Time to read: 9h
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Homo Deus is a book I would recommend to anyone who wants to refine their thinking about the future. Knowing his previous books already I knew what to expect, yet was surprised by the clarity and depth of his thinking.
Harari has extended his evolutionary concepts to go beyond his “Sapiens” bestseller of 2016, and as a historian is doing it uncompromisingly. The concepts he’s coming out with are mind-boggling. As David Sexton wrote in a review published in the Evening Standard: “Compared with the subjects he (Harari) tackles, anything else we might read looks piffling and parochial.”
How else could you describe concepts where humans are framed as units of a giant computational algorithm, or religions as virtual reality games of our imagination with a scoring system to get you to next level in the afterlife?
His insights can come as blasphemous for those of us who are used to seeing the world through the lens of human superiority (usually called anthropocentrism). Harari states clearly that we’re biased by definition, as our narrative-self making sense of the world is incompatible with the very fabric of reality. The latter doesn’t come in the shape of a story.
Here’s what I’ve learned from my reading of the book:
Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
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Published: Sep 2016
Length: 460 pages
Time to read: 10h
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