The Shape of Shit to Come
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Steve Lowe. The Shape of Shit to Come
THE SHAPE OF SHIT TO COME. STEVE LOWE AND. ALAN McARTHUR
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: GENES. The mouse that did not roar, but instead made another surprising animal noise
What can we learn from the really weird animals?
We want to help you overcome your genes
Is all this genetics just eugenics under another name?
Transhuman express
Attack of the cloned neanderthals
CHAPTER 2: ROBOTS. Does not include batteries
The robots are not coming! The robots are not coming! The robots are already here
Robots in the house
You’re so rubbery, you’re so rubbery
War robots: what are they good for?
They’re independent, are you?
Becoming a bit robot
Where will it end? Apart from with the robots tearing us limb from limb, obviously?
CHAPTER 3: ENERGY. Ambassador, you are despoiling us
More energy than you can shake a stick at
Wind farms kill your kids and have it off with your wife
We have ignition! (or at least we expect to have ignition within a few decades, given adequate funding and other certain provisos)
Sometimes the craziest ideas are actually the sanest … (and sometimes they are not)
CHAPTER 4: THE INTERNET. World wide web
More real than real
More internet than you could shake a stick at
When you search the internet, does the internet not also search you?
Oh what a glorious thing to be: a healthy, grown-up, busy, busy bee
CHAPTER 5: NANOTECHNOLOGY. I believe in miracle materials
What is nanotechnology and what the hell does it think it’s doing?
Really, really tiny robots
There’s plenty of room for the bottom up
The goo will out
The endless possbilities are limitless
CHAPTER 6: FOOD. Jelly(fish) and ice cream
The indestructible sandwich (and other stories)
It were all vertical fields round here
To the sea, to the sea
The challenge of meat
Foodageddon
CHAPTER 7: COMPUTERS. My laptop can read the future
The games people play
Strong AI vs weak AI: which is the strongest?
Conscious of consciousness
Forwards to the cosmic infogasm?
We have already made a man
CHAPTER 8: SPACE. Space, the final fronter – for privatisation
Whither the state space programmes
But we went to space last year!
You want the moon on a stick, you do
It’s life, pretty much as we know it
You will fuck space up and you know you will
CONCLUSION
Footnotes
By the same authors
Copyright
About the Publisher
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I mean, he’s right in a way: who does want idiots, imbeciles, paupers and criminals? Not me. Not after last time. But most would now agree that fascistically stopping people breeding is not really helping anyone and the USA for one has a far more enlightened attitude to imbeciles – sometimes even making them president.
But trying not to slip into being a teeny bit fascist remains a big issue with genetics. Most are pretty careful to avoid muddying the waters, though this cannot really be said for James Watson, the American genetics legend who, with Francis Crick, discovered DNA in a Cambridge pub in 1952 and now runs one of America’s leading scientific research institutions. In 2004, pondering genetic engineering’s potential uses, this figurehead wondered if there was any harm in breeding ‘pretty girls’ (he really likes pretty girls).
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