num_pages: 368
description: In breathtakingly original prose Elise Bohan argues that were hurtling towards a superhuman future  or if we blunder extinction. The only way out of our existential crises from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI is up. Well need more technology to safeguard our future  and were going to invent (and perhaps even merge with) some of that technology. What does that mean for our 20th century life-scripts? Are the robots coming for our jobs? How will human relationships change when AI knows us inside out? Will we still be having human babies by the centurys end? Bohan unflinchingly explores possibilities most of us are afraid to the impacts of automation on our jobs livelihoods and dating and mating careers the stretching out of the-circle-of-life as life-extension technologies mature the rise of AI friends and lovers the liberation of women from pregnancy childbirth and breastfeeding and the impending global baby-bust  and attendant proliferation of digital minds. Strap in for an exhilarating and starkly honest take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century.
language: English
title: Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
publisher: NewSouth