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A narrative citing the activities of historical figures and leading modern scientists demonstrates how the innate desire to live forever has contributed to humanity's most significant achievements in science, medicine, religion, and art.
This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines, featuring contributions from leading humanities and social science scholars who detail the narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) that in turn offer a crucial epistemic site …
This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed and regulated. It is t…
Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. It argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life and that the way they have done so has stayed remarka…
There is a cloud-capped peak where gods and immortals while away their infinite days, and since the dawn of humanity everyone whether they know it or not has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope. Throughout history, people ha…
'Immortality' shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science.
Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. It argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life, and that the way they have done so has stayed remark…