Just finished James Lovelock’s Novacene, a refreshingly optimistic view of our future and the coming of hyper-intelligence in which he sees the beings that emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems will be as dependent on the health of the planet at we are: ‘we will be partners in the project of future life on Earth’ 🌎🌱 (Let’s hope so!) ‘Must we fear the future and the surprises the Novacene might bring? I do not think so. This epoch will mark the end of what is to us nearly 4 billion years of biological life on this planet [...] If [...] the universe exists to produce and sustain intelligent life, then we are playing a part like that of the photosynthesis era, organisms that set the scene for the next stage of evolution’ ‘The intelligence that launches the age that follows the Anthropocene will not be human. It will be something wholly different from what we can now conceive. Its logic, unlike ours, will be multidimensional. As with the animal and vegetable kingdoms, it may exist in many separate forms, varying in size, speed and power to act. It may be the next, or even the final step in the development of the evolution of the cosmos’ (Written at 100 might I add!!)
