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Novozän: Das kommende Zeitalter der Hyperintelligenz
James Lovelock, der Schöpfer der Gaia-Hypothese und berühmteste Ökodenker unserer Zeit, ist im vergangenen Juli 100 Jahre alt geworden - und hat ein neues Buch mit einer spektakulären These veröffentlicht. Darin prophezeit er gelassen das Ende des Anthropozäns und den Anbruch einer neuen Zeit: Mit unserer Gegenwart hat das 'Novozän' begonnen, das Zeitalter der Hyperintelligenz. Schon sehr bald wird aus der künstlichen Intelligenz eine neue Art von Lebewesen hervorgehen: Cyborgs, die 10 000 mal schneller sein werden als wir. Unsere Lebensform wird ihnen ähnlich entwickelt erscheinen wie uns die Pflanzenwelt. Doch diese Intelligenz wird vermutlich nicht von jener grausamen Art sein, die wir aus den Science-Fiction-Spektakeln aus Hollywood kennen. Denn auch sie wird von dem Überleben unseres Planeten abhängen und sich der großen Klimakatastrophe stellen müssen, die auf uns zurollt. Cyborgs könnten in Wahrheit unsere letzte Rettung sein. Doch das ist längst nicht alles: Der große ökologische Visionär Lovelock hat mit 100 Jahren einen Blick in unsere Zukunft geworfen und ein weises und höchst originelles Buch geschrieben, in dem es keinen einzigen langweiligen Satz gibt. Titel der englischen Originalausgabe: 'Novacene. The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence'. © James Lovelock and Bryan Appleyard, 2019. Die Originalausgabe ist 2018 bei Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London, erschienen. Für die deutsche Ausgabe: © Verlag C.H.Beck oHG, München 2020. Umschlaggestaltung: Geviert, Grafik & Typografie, Christian Otto. Umschlagabbildung: © Getty Images
James Lovelock (Author), Gunter Schoßböck (Narrator)
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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Novacene written by James Lovelock, read by Roy McMillan. James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun. New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and they will regard us as we now regard plants - as desperately slow acting and thinking creatures. But this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet imagined by sci-fi writers and film-makers. These hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need 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 will be partners in this project. It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. He does not think there are intelligent aliens, so we are the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos. Maybe, he speculates, the novacene could even be the beginning of a process that will finally lead to intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age 100, James Lovelock has produced the most important and compelling work of his life.
James Lovelock (Author), Roy Mcmillan (Narrator)
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril. There are factions at work today trying to convince the public that global warming is a leftwing conspiracy, a liberal hoax. They claim that scientists perpetuate this "myth" to obtain government grants, and point to "independent" scientists (usually funded by the oil industry) who refute climate change science. Dr. Lovelock may be the antidote to these claims, as he is a truly independent scientist. Lovelock, a chemist and inventor by profession and a climate activist, is not beholden to any government, university, or granting agency. Let those determined to bury their heads in the sands of right wing silliness do so. The rest of us, young and old, have work to do. Lovelock's book sets out an important agenda to follow.
James Lovelock (Author), Simon Vance, Simon Vance (Narrator)
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