<p dir="ltr">Excerpted : </p>
<p dir="ltr">It is available for both purchase (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/End-Beginning-Society-Economy-Singularity/dp/0692457666">http://www.amazon.com/End-Beginning-Society-Economy-Singularity/dp/0692457666</a>)<br>
and free download (<a href="http://humanityplus.org/projects/press/">http://humanityplus.org/projects/press/</a> ,<br>
<a href="http://goertzel.org/End_of_the_Beginning_July_2015.pdf">http://goertzel.org/End_of_the_Beginning_July_2015.pdf</a>).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Amazon summary:</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Francis Heylighen" <<a href="mailto:fheyligh@vub.ac.be">fheyligh@vub.ac.be</a>><br>Date: 25 Aug 2015 14:21<br>Subject: Book "The End of the Beginning" finally published!<br>To: "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group" <<a href="mailto:evolcomp@listserv.vub.ac.be">evolcomp@listserv.vub.ac.be</a>>, <<a href="mailto:gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be">gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><u></u>
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<div>Goertzel, B., & Goertzel, T. (2015). The End of the
Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity
(1 edition). Humanity+ Press.</div>
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<div>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!</div>
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<div>It is available for both purchase
(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/End-Beginning-Society-Economy-Singularity/dp/0" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/End-Beginning-Society-Economy-Singularity/dp/0</a><span></span>692457666)</div>
<div>and free download (<a href="http://humanityplus.org/projects/press/" target="_blank">http://humanityplus.org/projects/press/</a>
,</div>
<div><a href="http://goertzel.org/End_of_the_Beginning_July_2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://goertzel.org/End_of_the_Beginning_July_2015.pdf</a>). </div>
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<div>Amazon summary:</div>
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<div><font color="#262626"><b>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.</b><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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There are no easy or definite answers here - but lots of fascinating
questions to explore.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#262626"><b>CONTENTS</b></font></div>
<ul>
<li><font color="#262626"> Chapter One:<b> Predicting the Age of
Post-Human Intelligences</b>, by Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel
<li> Chapter Two:<b> A Tale of Two Transitions</b>, by Robin
Hanson
<li> Chapter Three:<b> Longer Lives on the Brink of Global
Population Contraction: A Report from 2040</b>, by Max More
<li> Chapter Four:<b> Implanting Post-Human Intelligence in
Human Bodies</b>, by John Hewitt
<li> Chapter Five:<b> The Singularity and the
Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences</b>, by Aubrey de Grey
<li> Chapter Six:<b> Robotics and AI: Impacts Felt on
Every Aspect of Our Future World</b>, by Daryl Nazareth
<li> Chapter Seven:<b> Robotics, AI, the Luddite Fallacy
and the Future of the Job Market</b>, by Wayne Radinsky
<li> Chapter Eight:<b> Moral Responsibility and Autonomous
Machines</b>, by David Burke
<li> Chapter Nine:<b> How Will the Artilect War
Start?</b>, by Hugo de Garis
<li> Chapter Ten:<b> Return to Eden? Promises and Perils
on the Road to Global Superintelligence</b>, by Francis Heylighen
<li> Chapter Eleven:<b> Distributing Cognition: From Local
Brains to the Global Brain</b>, by Clément Vidal
<li> Chapter Twelve:<b> A World of Views: A World of
Interacting Post-human Intelligences</b>, by Viktoras Veitas and David
Weinbaum (Weaver)
<li> Chapter Thirteen:<b> Chinese Perspectives on the
Approach to the Singularity</b>, by Mingyu Huang
<li> Chapter Fourteen:<b> Africa Today and the Shadow of
the Coming Singularity</b>, by Hruy Tsegaye
<li> Chapter Fifteen:<b> The World's First Decentralized
System for Financial and Legal Transaction</b>, by Chris Odom
<li> Chapter Sixteen:<b> Beyond Money: Offer Networks, a
Potential Infrastructure for a Post-Money Economy</b>, by Ben Goertzel
<li> Chapter Seventeen:<b> Sousveillance and AGI</b>, by
Ben Goertzel and Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
<li> Chapter Eighteen:<b> The Future of Human Nature</b>,
by Ben Goertzel
<li> Chapter Nineteen:<b> Capitalism, Socialism,
Singularitarianism</b>, by Ted Goertzel
<li> Chapter Twenty:<b> Toward a Human-Friendly
Post-Singularity World</b>, by Ben Goertzel
<li> Chapter Twenty-one:<b> Looking Backward from
2100</b>, by Ben Goertzel and Ted Goertzel</li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></font></li></ul>
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<div><font color="#262626"><b>About the Authors</b><br>
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+.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#262626">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.</font></div>
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Francis Heylighen <br>
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group<br>
Free University of Brussels<br>
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