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| Title Statement | Superconvergence: how the genetics, biotech, and AI revolutions will transform our lives, work, and world / Jamie Metzl. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | How the genetics, biotech, and artificial intelligence revolutions will transform our lives, work, and world |
| Author | Metzl, Jamie Frederic |
| Publication | Portland, OR: Timber Press,2024. |
| Extent of Item | 431 pages |
| ISBN | 9781643263007 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07475616 |
| Contents | The nature of change --From precision to predictive healthcare --Hackriculture --Newnimals --Nonimals --It's the bioeconomy, stupid --What could go wrong? --Castles in the air. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-417) and index. |
| Summary | "In Superconvergence, leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways. These technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, and store essential information for millions of years, but can also-if we are not careful-do immeasurable harm"-- |
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| By Topic | Technological forecasting |
| Technology and civilization | |
| Technology--Miscellanea | |
| Technology--Moral and ethical aspects | |
