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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 290,444 ratings — published 2015
Hakowanie sztucznej inteligencji (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published
Cyfryzacja życia w erze Big Data (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
Be Data Literate: The Data Literacy Skills Everyone Needs To Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 119 ratings — published
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 4,953 ratings — published 2016
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 17,209 ratings — published 2011
AIQ: How People and Machines are Smarter Together (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 742 ratings — published 2018
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
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avg rating 3.73 — 12,494 ratings — published 2014
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,230 ratings — published 2014
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 12,111 ratings — published 2014
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,078 ratings — published 2023
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 58,503 ratings — published 2019
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 2,349 ratings — published 2011
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,331 ratings — published 1982
The Coming Storm (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 3.82 — 7,055 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 597,567 ratings — published 2011
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,315,140 ratings — published 2011
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 55,250 ratings — published 2010
One Second After (After, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 76,962 ratings — published 2009
The Traveler (Fourth Realm, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 12,075 ratings — published 2005
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 45,498 ratings — published 2006
Jennifer Government (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 15,856 ratings — published 2002
“We are striving to engineer the internet of all things in hope to make us healthy, happy and powerful. Yet once the internet of all things is up and running, we might be reduced from engineers to chips then to data and eventually, we might dissolve within the data torrent like a clamp of earth within a gushing river. Dataism, thereby, threatens to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens has done to all other animals. In the course of history, humans have created a global network and evaluated everything according to its function within the network. For thousands of years this boosted human pride and prejudices.
Since humans fulfilled the most important function in the network, it was easy for us to take credit for the network’s achievements and to see ourselves as the apex of creation. The lives and experiences of all other animals were undervalued because they fulfilled far less important functions. And whenever an animal ceased to fulfil any function at all it went extinct. However, once humans loose their functional importance to the network, we’ll discover that we are not the apex of creation after all. The yardsticks that we ourselves have enshrined will condemn us to join the mammoths and the Chinese river dolphins in oblivion. Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple within the cosmic data flow.”
― Homo Deus
Since humans fulfilled the most important function in the network, it was easy for us to take credit for the network’s achievements and to see ourselves as the apex of creation. The lives and experiences of all other animals were undervalued because they fulfilled far less important functions. And whenever an animal ceased to fulfil any function at all it went extinct. However, once humans loose their functional importance to the network, we’ll discover that we are not the apex of creation after all. The yardsticks that we ourselves have enshrined will condemn us to join the mammoths and the Chinese river dolphins in oblivion. Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple within the cosmic data flow.”
― Homo Deus
“Dataism adopts a strictly functional approach to humanity, appraising the value of human experiences according to their function in data-processing mechanisms. If we develop an algorithm that fulfils the same function better, human experiences will lose their value. Thus if we can replace not just taxi drivers and doctors but also lawyers, poets and musicians with superior computer programs, why should we care if these programs have no consciousness and no subjective experiences? If some humanist starts adulating the sacredness of human experience, Dataists would dismiss such sentimental humbug. ‘The experience you praise is just an outdated biochemical algorithm. In the African savannah 70,000 years ago, that algorithm was state-of-the-art. Even in the twentieth century it was vital for the army and for the economy. But soon we will have much better algorithms.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
