{"id":10129,"date":"2019-09-03T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10129"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:29:41","slug":"the-novacene-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/03\/the-novacene-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Novacene Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/cyborgs-will-replace-humans-remake-world-james-lovelock-says-ncna1041616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from NBC News (opens in a new tab)\">from NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cyborgs will replace humans and remake the world, James Lovelock says<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Corey S. Powell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2019_32\/2966026\/190809-robots-next-stage-of-evolution-main-kh_c1d4be4df491d6b4614f5d49ed9f22bd.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of robots and human walking together in a futuristic city.\"\/><figcaption>Tim Peacock \/ for NBC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet&#8217;s only intelligent, self-aware species. But the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/rise-smart-machines-puts-spotlight-robot-rights-ncna825791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rise of intelligent machines<\/a>&nbsp;means that could change soon, perhaps in our own lifetimes. Not long after that,&nbsp;<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>&nbsp;could vanish from Earth entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the jarring message of a new book by James Lovelock, the famed British environmentalist and futurist. \u201cOur supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,\u201d he says in the book, &#8220;Novacene.&#8221; \u201cThe understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call \u2018cyborgs\u2019 that will have designed and built themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/cyborgs-will-replace-humans-remake-world-james-lovelock-says-ncna1041616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at NBC News (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at NBC News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Cyborgs will replace humans and remake the world, James Lovelock says &#8216;Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end.&#8217; By\u00a0Corey S. Powell For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet&#8217;s only intelligent, self-aware species. But the&nbsp;rise of intelligent machines&nbsp;means that could change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}