Amos Walker (dauntless, incorruptible and underpaid) is hired to find a reputable newsreader's son who, more often than not, is involved in drugs and women. What Walker finds is far more than he bargained for and, in the end, it's Walker's reputation that is at stake.

The Glass Highway (The Amos Walker Series #4)

Loren D. Estleman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Humanity+ Press

Soul in Metaphysical and Empirical Psychology

Strasser, Stephan

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

Goertzel, Ben

Goertzel, Ted

Science & Math

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the quest for the sci-fi AI dream: AI with mental autonomy, generality, adaptiveness and imagination equal to and ultimately exceeding that of humans. After decades of R&amp;D struggles, the time for AGI is now finally near. Since the early aughts, Dr. Ben Goertzel has been the leading force advancing the concept of AGI in the research community and the public sphere. Here he gives an insider’s account of the rise of AI and AGI from relative obscurity to their current status as the focus of large corporate and government initiatives. He presents his understanding of the operation of the human brain, and the viability of various approaches to AGI including his own OpenCog AGI project; and also describes his efforts to use AI to solve critical issues such as human aging. In Goertzel’s vision, AGI will soon yield dramatic changes in every area of human life and society. Advanced AGIs that vastly exceed human intelligence will bring on a Technological Singularity, quite likely within our lifetimes.

AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence

Goertzel, Dr. Ben

Essays & Commentary

CREDO International: Voices of Religious Liberalism From Around the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Don McEvoy

Politics & Government

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