Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of Novacene compiled by James Lovelock, browse by Roy McMillan.

James Lovelock, originator from the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our period, has produced a fantastic new theory about potential of life on the planet. He argues which the anthropocene – this in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies – is certainly, after 300 years, coming to an end. A fresh age group – the novacene – has recently begun.

New beings will emerge from existing about Novacene: The Approaching Age of Hyperintelligence artificial intelligence systems. They’ll believe 10,000 occasions quicker than we perform and they’ll respect us as we now regard vegetation – as desperately slow performing and thinking creatures. But this will never be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet dreamed by sci-fi authors and film-makers. These hyper-intelligent beings will become as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They’ll want the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend them from the increasing heat of the sun as much as we do. And Gaia depends on organic life. We are partners with this project.

It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that this intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. He does not think you can find intelligent aliens, so we are the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos. Maybe, he speculates, the novacene could even be the start of a process which will finally lead to intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At this 100, Adam Lovelock has created the most important and compelling function of his existence.