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[Mark Kohut]

Well, all I know so far is that I was sent Harari's words about his book.
Placing it "historically" in a philosophical way
Which was so bad I did not read past the first two paragraphs.

/Whatever research and interesting shit he has in this book, I think the
wrapping is bad.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:58 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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