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from today's Financial Times:

'Our increasing mastery of machinery will also give us the opportunity to
merge with robots and computers, giving us the power of gods and the
ability to create new forms of life. “After 4 billion years of wandering
inside the kingdom of organic compounds, life will break out into the
vastness of the inorganic realm, and will take shapes that we cannot
envision even in our wildest dreams,” writes Harari.'

Planet of the apps — have we paved the way for our own extinction?

Yuval Noah Harari’s new book imagines a future in which machines take charge
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