[P2P-F] Fwd: Book "The End of the Beginning" finally published!

Tue Aug 25 13:59:02 CEST 2015

Excerpted :

It is  available for both purchase (
http://www.amazon.com/End-Beginning-Society-Economy-Singularity/dp/0692457666
)
and free download (http://humanityplus.org/projects/press/ ,
http://goertzel.org/End_of_the_Beginning_July_2015.pdf).

Amazon summary:

A deep, diverse edited volume addressing the most critical issues regarding
the future of humanity and intelligence -- with chapters authored by a
who's-who of leading futurist thinkers and doers.
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From: "Francis Heylighen" <fheyligh at vub.ac.be>
Date: 25 Aug 2015 14:21
Subject: Book "The End of the Beginning" finally published!
To: "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group" <evolcomp at listserv.vub.ac.be>,
<gbrain at listserv.vub.ac.be>
Cc:

Goertzel, B., & Goertzel, T. (2015). The End of the Beginning: Life,
Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity (1 edition). Humanity+
Press.

Here is the book to which several GBI members contributed with a number of
important papers. (It contains my "Return to Eden" paper, and also in-depth
contributions from Weaver, Viktoras, Clement,  and a number of well-known
futuristic thinkers such as Aubrey de Grey, Max More, Hugo de Garis and
Robin Hanson). Definitely worth reading and making publicity about, so
please pass this via your different channels!

It is  available for both purchase (
http://www.amazon.com/End-Beginning-Society-Economy-Singularity/dp/0
692457666)
and free download (http://humanityplus.org/projects/press/ ,
http://goertzel.org/End_of_the_Beginning_July_2015.pdf).

Amazon summary:

*A deep, diverse edited volume addressing the most critical issues
regarding the future of humanity and intelligence -- with chapters authored
by a who's-who of leading futurist thinkers and doers.*

According to Vernor Vinge, Ray Kurzweil and a rapidly increasing chorus of
techno-futurists, we are living on the brink of a technological Singularity
- a time when machines will become vastly more intelligent than humans. In
such a scenario, death, disease and everyday material scarcity will be
radically diminished, and life will be dramatically different in many other
ways.

But what will the path to this amazing future look like? How will human
life grow and unfold as technology advances and Singularity approaches? The
chapters in this book approach this issue from the perspectives of multiple
visionary authors from around the globe, covering topics such as the impact
of life extension, the future of money and exchange, the future of human
psychology, biological self-modification, intelligence enhancement,
automation and escalating unemployment, the possibility of global war
between pro and anti technology forces, the impact of future technology on
Asia and Africa, the emerging Global Brain, the future of surveillance and
privacy, and much more.

There are no easy or definite answers here - but lots of fascinating
questions to explore.
*CONTENTS*

   -   Chapter One:* Predicting the Age of Post-Human Intelligences*, by
   Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel
   -   Chapter Two:* A Tale of Two Transitions*, by Robin Hanson
   -   Chapter Three:* Longer Lives on the Brink of Global Population
   Contraction: A Report from 2040*, by Max More
   -   Chapter Four:* Implanting Post-Human Intelligence in Human Bodies*,
   by John Hewitt
   -    Chapter Five:* The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities
   and Differences*, by Aubrey de Grey
   -    Chapter Six:* Robotics and AI: Impacts Felt on Every Aspect of Our
   Future World*, by Daryl Nazareth
   -    Chapter Seven:* Robotics, AI, the Luddite Fallacy and the Future of
   the Job Market*, by Wayne Radinsky
   -    Chapter Eight:* Moral Responsibility and Autonomous Machines*, by
   David Burke
   -    Chapter Nine:* How Will the Artilect War Start?*, by Hugo de Garis
   -    Chapter Ten:* Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to
   Global Superintelligence*, by Francis Heylighen
   -    Chapter Eleven:* Distributing Cognition: From Local Brains to the
   Global Brain*, by Clément Vidal
   -    Chapter Twelve:* A World of Views: A World of Interacting
   Post-human Intelligences*, by Viktoras Veitas and David Weinbaum
   (Weaver)
   -    Chapter Thirteen:* Chinese Perspectives on the Approach to the
   Singularity*, by Mingyu Huang
   -    Chapter Fourteen:* Africa Today and the Shadow of the Coming
   Singularity*, by Hruy Tsegaye
   -    Chapter Fifteen:* The World's First Decentralized System for
   Financial and Legal Transaction*, by Chris Odom
   -    Chapter Sixteen:* Beyond Money: Offer Networks, a Potential
   Infrastructure for a Post-Money Economy*, by Ben Goertzel
   -    Chapter Seventeen:* Sousveillance and AGI*, by Ben Goertzel and
   Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
   -    Chapter Eighteen:* The Future of Human Nature*, by Ben Goertzel
   -    Chapter Nineteen:* Capitalism, Socialism, Singularitarianism*, by
   Ted Goertzel
   -    Chapter Twenty:* Toward a Human-Friendly Post-Singularity World*,
   by Ben Goertzel
   -    Chapter Twenty-one:* Looking Backward from 2100*, by Ben Goertzel
   and Ted Goertzel

*About the Authors*
Dr. Ben Goertzel is a leader of the field of Artificial General
Intelligence, and a prolific speaker and writer on topics related to AI and
its future. He serves as Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm
Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC,
bioinformatics company Biomind LLC. the Artificial General Intelligence
Society and the OpenCog Foundation; and Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit
Humanity+.
Dr. Ted Goertzel is professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers University,
with research expertise in political sociology, statistical data analysis,
psychobiography and other areas. In recent years he has published papers
and given talks on the future of AI.

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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
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