ALL THINGS BIG AND SMALL 2.0

SUPERINTELLIGENCE by NICK BOSTROM (non-fiction): This book posts the various scenarios on the topic of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine turning into a Superintelligence and taking over the human race. Not science fiction but based on current technology's projected development into the future. Scary and chilling when you consider that great minds like Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have already given warnings on the dangers that can happen when an AI gets out of control. We have already experienced the great improvement in the intelligence of search engines, translation software, speech recognition and image recognition in recent years. This is just the beginning The author shows the the various technical scenarios where a machine AI becomes powerful enough to break free from its human programmers, command resources to exponentially improve its own capabilities, destroy other competing AI and go on to plot a takeover of the human race. In this boo...

EVOLUTION IN NATURE: LESSONS FOR YOUR LIFE. Nature did not have a plan to make a tiger, a horse or Man. It just happened along the way. Everything in this space-time Universe evolves; including your Life. Evolution is survival of the fittest. But it is not strength or intelligence that determines fitness for survival. It is the ability to adapt to the ever-changing environment. Those who are able to constantly adapt, survive. Because Evolution has no pre-determined plan n or a targeted path. Evolution is open-ended. It meanders along adapting to its ever-changing environment. It is affected by, and in turn affects the environment (and its inhabitants). [Coevolution and Feedback Loops]. In the same way, your Life is not pre-determined but meanders along, affected by events and people, and in turn affecting events and people in a feedback loop. What you will be tomorrow depends on what you do today. And what you do tomorrow makes you what you will be the day after tomorrow. ...