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Table of Contents

Chapter One

In the Beginning

Beginnings

Welcome to the Future

The Power of Convergence

Socially Responsible Innovation

A Common Point of Focus

Spoiler Alert

Chapter Two

Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology

When Dinosaurs Ruled the World

De-Extinction

Could We, Should We?

The Butterfly Effect

Visions of Power

Chapter Three

Never Let Me Go: A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning

Sins of Futures Past

Cloning

Genuinely Human?

Too Valuable to Fail?

Chapter Four

Minority Report: Predicting Criminal Intent

Criminal Intent

The “Science” of Predicting Bad Behavior

Criminal Brain Scans

Machine Learning-Based Precognition

Big Brother, Meet Big Data

Chapter Five

Limitless: Pharmaceutically-enhanced Intelligence

A Pill for Everything

The Seduction of Self-Enhancement

Nootropics

If You Could, Would You?

Privileged Technology

Our Obsession with Intelligence

Chapter Six

Elysium: Social Inequity in an Age of Technological Extremes

The Poor Shall Inherit the Earth

Bioprinting Our Future Bodies

The Disposable Workforce

Living in an Automated Future

Chapter Seven

Ghost in the Shell: Being Human in an Augmented Future

Through a Glass Darkly

Body Hacking

More than “Human”?

Plugged In, Hacked Out

Your Corporate Body

Chapter Eight

Ex Machina: AI and the Art of Manipulation

Plato’s Cave

The Lure of Permissionless Innovation

Technologies of Hubris

Superintelligence

Defining Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Manipulation

Chapter Nine

Transcendence: Welcome to the Singularity

Visions of the Future

Technological Convergence

Enter the Neo-Luddites

Techno-Terrorism

Exponential Extrapolation

Make-Believe in the Age of the Singularity

Chapter Ten

The Man in the White Suit: Living in a Material World

There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom

Mastering the Material World

Myopically Benevolent Science

Never Underestimate the Status Quo

It’s Good to Talk

Chapter Eleven

Inferno: Immoral Logic in an Age of Genetic Manipulation

Decoding Make-Believe

Weaponizing the Genome

Immoral Logic?

The Honest Broker

Dictating the Future

Chapter Twelve

The Day After Tomorrow: Riding the Wave of Climate Change

Our Changing Climate

Fragile States

A Planetary “Microbiome”

The Rise of the Anthropocene

Building Resiliency

Geoengineering the Future

Chapter Thirteen

Contact: Living by More than Science Alone

An Awful Waste of Space

More than Science Alone

Occam’s Razor

What If We’re Not Alone?

Chapter Fourteen

Looking to the Future

Acknowledgments