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Yes, those Edge boooks are great.<br>
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By the way, other books to look out for:<br>
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Robin Hanson, The Age of Em, Oxford University Press (2016)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198754626.do">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198754626.do</a><br>
(The economics and sociology of an upload world, by this list's very
own Robin Hanson)<br>
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Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future
of Humanity, Oxford University Press (2016)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198723547.do">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198723547.do</a><br>
(Looks very promising. Olle is awesome. )<br>
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Shanahan, M., The Technological Singularity, MIT Press (2015).
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technological-singularity">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technological-singularity</a><br>
(Probably a bit too popular for many on this list, but Murray is a
smart fellow and has written well about many of our favorite
topics.)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-09-26 17:13, William Flynn
Wallace wrote:<br>
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of you have already got your 2015 copies, but just in the
slight chance that you haven't heard about this series:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This Idea Must
Die, subtitled Scientific Theories that are blocking
Progress; edited by John Brockman<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Great series -
I've read all of them and none has been a loser.<br>
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