I’ll be in Madrid this week where I’ll be attending a conference on potential future human trajectories stemming from advances in both life sciences and information technology. Which brings up the subject of my friend Steve Kotler’s new book, The Rise of Superman–it’ll be out in March. I’ve read the draft manuscript, it’s very good.
Category: Steve Kotler
Steven Kotler and I have our say on guns and addiction…
It’s here on Forbes.com.
Niall Ferguson’s screed against the optimism of Silicon Valley
From Newsweek Magazine, it’s here. My sense is that colleague Tyler Cowen would agree with him and that Peter Diamandis and Steve Kotler would disagree.
My own take is that we are definitely not condemned to reliving the 1930’s and that technology does have the potential to really change things for us in a positive way.
But I’m far from sure that there are engineered solutions to our profound problems and I remain convinced that human beings are flawed enough to really screw things up for the future.
Flow Genome Project
The link is here. Born from the idealism of my good friend Steve Kotler, I’m very pleased to be playing a role on FGP’s Advisory Board.
Steve Kotler’s new book opens at number 1 on Amazon
Link is here. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think is Steve’s latest excellent book in collaboration with Peter Diamandis. All I can say is that Steve is an enormously talented author and a great friend–buy his book!
Discoverers and Discoveries 