The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us (2014) epub torrent

"We're asking ourselves how far are we willing to engineer the world and ourselves?" In The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, Diane Ackerman writes about the technological innovations that are altering our lives on a daily basis. She covers topics such as chimeras (blends of human/animals), robots, artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing, tablets, food production, greenhouse gases... just to touch the surface. She asks the question: is nature "natural" anymore, and what does that mean. One item she mentions, regarding robots and AI, is that any trauma they experience, they don't have the ability to forget. It's tidibts of information like that that shed a different perspective on some of the chapters