NOVACENE

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new th eory 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 artificia l intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and they will regard us as we now regard plants - as desperat ely slow ...[Read more]