Future Minds, Richard Yonck
Future Minds, Richard Yonck
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Future Minds
The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe

Author: Richard Yonck

Narrator: Bob Souer

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/17/2020


Synopsis

With the ongoing advancement of AI and other technologies, our world is becoming increasingly intelligent. From chatbots to innovations in brain-computer interfaces to the possibility of superintelligences leading to the Singularity later this century, our reality is being transformed before our eyes. This is commonly seen as the natural result of progress, but what if there's more to it than that? What if intelligence is an inevitability, an underlying property of the universe?

In Future Minds, Richard Yonck challenges our assumptions about intelligence—what it is, how it came to exist, its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos. Taking a Big History perspective—over the 14 billion years from the Big Bang to the present and beyond—he draws on recent developments in physics and complexity theory to explore the questions: Why do pockets of increased complexity develop, giving rise to life, intelligence, and civilization? How will it grow and change throughout this century, transforming both technology and humanity? As we expand outward from our planet, will we discover other forms of intelligence, or will we conclude we are destined to go it alone? Any way we look at it, the nature of intelligence in the universe is becoming a central concern for humanity.

About Richard Yonck

Richard Yonck is a futurist, author, and speaker with Intelligent Future Consulting based in Seattle. An award-winning author on developing trends and technologies, he has written features and cover stories for numerous publications and websites, and is the computing and artificial intelligence contributing editor for the long-running Futurist magazine. He has been published in Scientific American, World Future Review, Fast Company, Wired, Psychology Today, H+ magazine, American Cinematographer, Mensa Bulletin, and the Seattle Times. He lives in Seattle.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rama

Intelligence in the universe Human beings may not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer. In fact, some predict that artificial intelligence (AI) could advance to human-level intelligence. The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking famously postulated that if AI itself begins designi......more

Goodreads review by Richard

Future Minds is a book about “big questions”. No, not what shall we get on our pizza. Richard Yonck is asking and addressing questions such as; where did life some from, why are we here, what is a mind, how soon will computers become self-aware, are there others intelligences in the universe, and is......more

Goodreads review by N.K.

If you love science then this book is for you. I love reading about the beginning of man, evolution and the future of man. This book provides a fascinating look into the origins of man and technology. While I must admit that a lot of the things the author recounts are mere conjectures and speculatio......more