Novacene

By James Lovelock,

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At the age of 98, James Lovelock, known for the Gaya Hypothesis and one of the great minds of our age, has given us a remarkably visionary glimpse of the future of humanity and its situation here on Earth.

He argues that we are now coming to the end of the human-dominated Anthropocene age and moving into the dawn of a new era, the novacene. In this rapidly approaching future of hyperintelligent machines that think ten thousand times faster than humans, these new “beings” will take the leadership in managing the Earth’s ecological as well as other systems.

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