Where will man take us?

TITLE-  where will man takes us???

AUTHOR- Atul Jalan

GENRE - fiction

BOOK LENGTH -  272

PUBLISHER-  Penguin Random House India

PUBLISHING INDIA- 13 April 2019

LANGUAGE - English

FORMAT - Paperback

PRICE - 226 INR

Qotd -Do you believe that human will be the next God for machines?? 

behind us, is Homo sapiens.

Behind us, is a whole new species.

We are the traditional generation.

What a great place and time to be in!

These were the lines of this book I saw in someone's story and I wanted to read it.

This book is divided into 5 parts-the driver of changes, the new society, the magic of maths, the end of mystery and the new man. All parts of book  describes the influences of technology in different aspects of life from politics to relationships, from religion to currency. 

This gives us detailed information about the history of technology and how much time it would take to evolve from Artificial general Intelligence to Artificial Super Intelligence. 

How the technology like social media that was invented to widen our world is making us the frog of pitcher as our likes totally control our social media profile and makes us connect with only like minded people. 

There is famous quotation of Turing that is repeated again and again in this Novel,

'CAN MACHINE THINK'???. 

This one line is basic concept of artificial Intelligence. What will be consequences when machine would start evolving just like human beings??? It is also possible that human will turn into machines - cyborg..Our biology is already merging with the technology. 

We all are familiar with alexa but how many of us are aware of Sophia??? Now - a - days when we are alienated to make the career, will there come a day when our need of companionship fulfill by Machines???

This novels gives us a vivid description of the role that technology played in the elections of America and how technology changes our opinion without even knowing us that we are under the influence of social media.

In this book, there is a brief discussion of scientific discoveries and scientific theories and how religion in interrelated with the technology.

Technology is even playing a role in matchmaking.

Do you Beleive that technology reduces the number of jobs?? Technology actually increases the number of jobs in every domain.

There will be a day when man become mortal, and we will be able to transfer our memories into chips and stores in the cloud.. This seems the science fiction for us, but with the help of technology it would be possible.

This will be new industrial revolution and a new era of technology. We still need to go afar to reach there.

Language is easy and easy to understand. Author has done a great research to write this book. There is bibliography and endnotes section in the last which gives us information about the seminar, researches that has been used in the book.

Title - according to the plot. 

Writing skills - 5 

Recommended - highly

Cover - 5

Overall rating-5