In her nonfiction debut, futurist and technology entrepreneur Rad helps readers acclimate to a world \u201cwhere change accelerates far faster than any standardized test or rubric can reflect or contain.\u201d Humanity is experiencing huge advances in processing power, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology, along with the advent of all kinds of neural interfaces on the horizon\u2014technological transformation on a scale never seen before. The situation heralds what the author refers to as \u201cthe wholesale sunsetting of humanity\u2019s current OS,\u201d and in these pages she encourages her readers to take the leap into the new world. Rad\u2019s not advocating a complete overhaul of that old \u201coperating system,\u201d but rather a reclamation of what she holds to be essential human skills: \u201cconnection, compassion, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.\u201d The author walks readers through various aspects of the coming post-human future, from digital platform algorithms to the \u201cattention economy,\u201d with its concentration on \u201cextracting dollars from our eyeballs, clicks, tracking cookies, and more.\u201d Throughout the illustrated, bullet-pointed chapters, Rad affirms the centrality of the human experience as a compass to navigate the technological changes in the near future. The author has concerns about major subjects like artificial intelligence, worrying, \u201cif we\u2019re feeding a system that\u2019s essentially just a fancy copy machine, it might be able to emulate\u00a0connection, but we\u2019re getting imitation goods.\u201d On this subject and a couple of others, Rad can be too casually dismissive; when she comments that \u201cpeople who think AI will render the creative arts obsolete don\u2019t understand how AI currently works,\u201d for instance, she\u2019s missing the point\u2014many of those people are worrying about how AI will work as the tech grows more sophisticated. Still, her open-minded optimism carries the book.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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