The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth

Many Thinkers Believe That The Next Transformational Change In Human Organization Will Be The Onset Of Human-level Artificial Intelligence (the 'singularity'), And That The Most Likely Method Of Achieving This Will Come Through Brain Emulations Or Ems: The Ability To Scan Human Brains And Program Their Connections Into Ever Faster Computers. Taking This As His Starting Point, Hanson Describes What A World Dominated By These Ems Will Be Like--publisher's Website. Introduction -- I. Basics. Start -- Modes -- Framing -- Assumptions -- Implementation -- Ii. Physics. Scales -- Infrastructure -- Appearances -- Information -- Existence -- Farewells -- Iii. Economics. Labor -- Efficiency -- Work -- Business -- Growth -- Lifesysle -- Iv. Organization. Clumping -- Groups -- Conflict -- Politics -- Rules -- V. Sociology. Mating -- Signals -- Collaboration -- Society -- Minds -- Vi. Implications. Variations -- Choices -- Finale. Robin Hanson. Includes Bibliographic References (pages 385-416) And Index.