Timber Press – Authors – Jamie Metzl
There is no one better to help us understand and prepare for the fast approaching technological revolutions.
Sanjay Gupta MD, bestselleing author and neurosurgeon
Hello. I’m Jamie Metzl.
People feel that technological change is happening so rapidly and at such a scale that they can only be passive bystanders. I want to inspire people to feel differently. Just like every vote matters in a functioning democracy, even only in aggregate, every person has a critical role in determining how some of the most consequential technologies in human history should and should not be used. It’s a huge task but we’ve got to do it and we’ve got to start now. That’s why I’ve written this book.
In Superconvergence, leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, gene editing, and other revolutionary technologies are transforming our lives, world, and future. These accelerating and increasingly interconnected technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save our planet, but they can also―if we are not careful―do immeasurable harm.
The challenge we face is that while our ability to engineer the world around us is advancing exponentially, our processes for understanding the scope, scale, and implications of these changes, and for managing our godlike powers wisely, are only inching forward glacially. Luckily, in Jamie Metzl, we have a leading expert who integrates science, technology, history, politics, and international affairs to envision a future that most specialists, almost by definition, cannot see. In this bold and inspiring exploration of transformative human knowledge, Metzl gives us the definitive account of the technological precipice on which we stand and the map to where we go from here.
Superconvergence is a master class for imagining, investing in, and building a future we’d like to inhabit.
Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer, WisdomTree
Read the introduction and author Q&A
More about Jamie
Jamie’s syndicated columns and other writings are featured in publications around the world.
Jamie is a regular commentator on CNN, Bloomberg, and other media.
Jamie is a regular speaker at SXSW, Google Zeitgeist, Singularity University, and other high-profile venues and explores the implications of the revolutionary technologies and geopolitical shifts transforming our world with corporate, nonprofit, and academic audiences across the globe.
Jamie Metzl takes readers on a magical journey through the science of the intersecting genetics, biotech, and AI revolutions, deeply explores the implications, and challenges us to think creatively and proactively about what comes next.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene: An Intimate History
Which future will you choose?
