Films from the Future

Chapter One In the Beginning = 14 Beginnings = 14 Welcome th the Future = 16 The Power of Convergence = 18 Socially Responsible Innovation = 21 A Common Point of Focus = 25 Spoiler Alert = 26 Chapter Two Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology = 27 When Dinosaurs Ruled the World = 27 De-Extinction = 31 Could We, Should We? = 36 The Butterfly Effect = 39 Visions of Power = 43 Chapter Three Never Let Me Go: A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning = 46 Sins of Futures Past = 46 Cloning = 51 Genuinely Human? = 56 Too Valuable to Fail? = 62 Chapter Four Minority Repart: Predicting Criminal Intent = 63 Criminal Intent = 63 The "Science" of Predicting Bad Behavior = 68 Criminal Brain Scans = 73 Machine Learning-Based Precognition = 76 Big Brother, Meet Big Data = 78 Chapter Five Limitless: Pharmaceutically-enhanced Intelligence = 85 A Pill for Everything = 85 The Seduction of Self-Enhancement = 88 Nootropics = 90 If You Could, Would You? = 96 Privileged Technology = 100 Our Obsession with Intelligence = 104 Chapter Six Elysium: Social Inequity in an Age of Technological Extremes = 109 The Poor Shall Inherit the Earth = 109 Bioprinting Our Future Bodies = 114 The Disposable Workforce = 118 Living in an Automated Future = 123 Chapter Seven Ghost in the Shell: Being Human in an Augmented Future = 128 Through a Glass Darkly = 128 Body Hacking = 134 More than "Himan"? = 136 Plugged In, Hacked Out = 141 Your Corporate Body = 146 Chapter Eight Ex Machina: AI and the Art of Manipulation = 153 Plato's Cave = 153 The Lure of Permissionless Innovation = 159 Technologies of Hubris = 163 Superintelligence = 168 Defining Artificial Intelligence = 171 Artificial Manipulation = 174 Chapter Nine Transcendence: Welcome th the Singularity = 179 Visions of the Future = 179 Technological Convergence = 183 Enter the Neo-Luddites = 189 Techno-Terrorism = 193 Exponential Extrapolation = 199 Make-Believe in the Age of the Singularith = 202 Chapter Ten The Man in the White Suit: Living in a Material World = 207 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom = 207 Mastering the Material World = 212 Myopically Benevolent Science = 218 Never Underestimate the Status Quo = 223 It's Good to Talk = 226 Chapter Eleven Inferno: Immoral Logic in an Age of Genetic Manipulation = 230 Decoding Make-Believe = 230 Weaponizing the Genome = 233 Immoral Logic? = 237 The Honest Broker = 241 Dictating the Future = 247 Chapter Twelve The Day After Tomorrow: Riding the Wave of Climate Change = 250 Our Changing Climate = 250 Fragile States = 254 A Planetary "Microbiome" = 257 The Rise of the Anthropocene = 259 Building Resiliency = 261 Geoengineering the Future = 265 Chapter Thirteen Contact: Living by More than Science Alone = 271 An Awful Waste of Space = 271 More than Science Alone = 276 Occam's Razor = 279 What If We're Not Alone? = 282 Chapter Fourteen Looking to the Future = 287 Acknowledgments = 292

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