Book description
A bold, inspiring, and multi-disciplinary exploration of cutting-edge human knowledge and capabilities-and how to harness their awesome, but terrifying potential
In Superconvergence, leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other…
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked Superconvergence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The science and technology for radically reshaping our lives exists, but the frameworks to handle its power does not. That is one of the main themes, and warnings of Jamie Metzl’s book Superconvergence.
Are you ready to eat a steak grown synthetically in a lab? How about having your genome sequenced to tailor medicines for your body? How about using spider silk, which is stronger than Kevlar, to manufacture bullet-proof vests?
I love this book because it chronicles the integration of science, technology, history, politics, international affairs, culture, and biology to reengineer our modern world. Every consumption, healthcare, dietary, social,…
If you love Superconvergence...
Aggressor
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Want books like Superconvergence?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 2 books like Superconvergence.
📚 If you like Superconvergence, you might also like...
Old Man Country
This book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom as he narrates encounters with 12 distinguished American men over 80, including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world’s most famous heart surgeon.
In these and other intimate conversations, the book…
Lane and the Inventor
A grumpy-sunshine, slow-burn, sweet-and-steamy romance set in wild and beautiful small-town Colorado. Lane Gravers is a wanderer, adventurer, yoga instructor, and social butterfly when she meets reserved, quiet, pensive Logan Hickory, a loner inventor with a painful past.
Dive into this small-town, steamy romance between two opposites who find love…