It was new when it was published in 1995! Industrial Society and Its Future was explicitly cited in Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) and then Bill Joy’s “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” (2000), the latter of which helped found modern existential risk research.
It was new when it was published in 1995! Industrial Society and Its Future was explicitly cited in Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) and then Bill Joy’s “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” (2000), the latter of which helped found modern existential risk research.