Humans 3.0

Welcome to Human 3.0. Life for early humans wasnt easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldnt remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new tools became technology. As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of innovation is accelerating exponentially. Breakthroughs from robotics to genetics appear almost on a daily basis. Its all happening so quickly that its hard to keep track but recently theres been a shift. We used to create technology to change the world around us; now were using it to change ourselves. With vaccinations, in-vitro fertilization, and individual genetic therapy, were entering a new epoch, a next step, faster and more dramatic than the shift from Australopithicines to Homo Sapiens. The technology that set us apart from our earliest selves is becoming part of the evolutionary process. Advancements in computing, robotics, nanotechnology, neurology, and genetics mean that our wildest imaginings could soon become commonplace. Peter Nowak deftly presents the potential outcomesboth exciting and frighteningof key, rapidly advancing technologies and adroitly explores both the ramifications of adopting them and what doing so will reveal about the future of our species. Weve come a long way in 4 million years. Welcome to Human 3.0.