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Evolution of the Techno-Human

Jim Pinto

CONTENTS

19.1 Man with Tools Superior
19.2 Robots and Intelligence Augmentation
19.3 Synthetic Intelligence
19.3.1 Technological Progress: Threat or Benefit?
19.4 Biotech Revolution
19.4.1 Human Cloning
19.5 Intelligence and Consciousness in the New Age
19.6 Uncertainties of the New Century
19.7 Humanity’s Hard Problems
19.8 Computers Bring Soft Solutions
19.9 Future Workplace
19.9.1 Twenty-First-Century Prognostications
19.10 Conclusion
References

Evolution took millions of years to progress to the development of primates and then Homo sapiens.1 It took humans thousands of years to get to the industrial revolution, after which technological developments continued with ...

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