The Age of Em - Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth - Grand Format

"Robin Hanson brings intelligence, imagination, and courage to some of the most profound questions humanity will be dealing with in the middle-term future. The Age of Em is a stimulating and unique book that will be valuable to anyone who wants to look past the next ten years to the next hundred and the next thousand." Sean Carroll, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, author of The Biru Picure.
"What happens when a first-rate economist applies his rigor, breadth, and curiosity to the sci-fi topic of whole brain emulations ? This book is what happens. There's nothing else like it, and it will blow your (current) mind." Andrew McAfee, Professor of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A highly provocative vision of a technologically advanced future that may or may not come true - but if it does, we'll be glad Robin wrote this book." Marc Andreessen, cofounder Netscape, Andreessen Horowitz.
"In this brilliant analysis, Robin Hanson shows that our hyper-smart "downloaded" - or emulated - heirs will still have ambitions, triumphs and thwarted desires. They'll make alliances, compete, cooperate... and very-likely love... all driven by immutable laws of nature and economics. Super intelligence may be a lot more like us than you imagined" David brin, two times Hugo award winner. "Robin Hanson provides a richly detailed portrait of a future society where brain emulation is widespread.
Drawing on physics, economics, sociology, history, and a host of other disciplines, he describes a world that is wonderfully strange and yet strikingly familiar. Far out ? Yes. Fascinating ? That too" Hal Varian, chief economist Google, Emeritus Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley. "A fascinating thought experiment about the future, written with clarity and verve by somebody who thinks very deeply and freely." Matt RIDLEY, columnist The Times.