By James P. Hogan
ISBN-10: 0671578138
ISBN-13: 9780671578138
"THAT PLANET HAS NO correct TO BE THERE!"
Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted participants, operating with no support or permission from any executive, have proven a colony. They name themselves the Kronians, after the Greek identify for Saturn. working with no the hidebound regulations of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the easiest and brightest of the house global, and has been making vital new discoveries. yet one among their claims -- that they have got came across facts that the sun approach has passed through repeated cataclysms, and as lately as a couple of thousand years in the past -- flies within the face of the reigning dogma, and is below assault via the clinical establishment.
Then the planet Jupiter emits a white-hot protoplanet as huge because the Earth, that is hurtling sunwards like a huge comet that might obliterate civilization....
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7 Currently at the theoretical stage, this ultimate technology will enable nanotechnologists to engineer self-replicating artificial cells, which will be used to create food in nanomachines. Software will control the molecule-by-molecule construction of synthetic meats, fruits, vegetables, and beverages—all scientifically designed to be healthful, and delicious to posthumans living forever in a nano-engineered utopia. ‘‘Humans will have bodies created with nanotechnology,’’ predicts posthumanist prophet Ray Kurzweil, ‘‘which will let us build devices .
44 While despising religion as dogmatic irrational debasement, transhumanists comfort themselves with religious goals such as personal immortality and divine power. Technologism is the new religion of the self-aggrandizing techno-elitists. Like some other religions, Technologism’s dogmatic belief system requires an irrational leap of faith that—in its case—moves from philosophical theories to technologies that do not exist. With their conviction that the techno-apocalyptic Singularity will redefine nature and their dream of transcendence through technology, the Technologists resemble religious fanatics.
55 Reviving the ancient legend of the vengeful artificial human, movie Haunted Utopias 45 The Golem: Heartbroken artificial clay man develops a violent, self-destructive obsession (Courtesy Photofest).
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