The Future Factor: Forces Transforming Human Destiny

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ISBN: 9780765805911 | 076580591X
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Copyright: 4/30/2004

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The Future Factor offers an inspiring, optimistic view of the human future. Sociologist Michael G. Zey shows how breathtaking innovations in fields such as biotechnology, computing, robotics, medicine, energy development and space technology are catapulting global society into a new era of abundance and prosperity.

Transaction Introduction

Preface

xxxiii

Acknowledgments

xxxiii

Prologue: Creating the Human Future

(14)

How We Will Get There-The Building Blocks of Vitalization

(8)

An Emerging Vision of Human Destiny

(2)

A Truly Human Factor

(3)

1. Dominionization: Humanity Ventures Forth and Learns Nature's Ways

(32)

Dominionization's Apex in the Macroindustrial Era

(7)

Dominionization over Inner Space: The Promise of Nanotechnology

(4)

Dominionization's Energy

(10)

HAARP, Tesla, and the Coming Magnetic Storm

(6)

Dominionization's Timeline

(4)

2. Biogenesis: Creating the Prototype for the Next Human Being

(32)

Genes and the Human Factor

(9)

At the Brink of Immortality

(3)

Biogenesis and Nanotechnology

(2)

Cloning and the Perfection of Humanity

(6)

The Many Faces of Biogenesis

(4)

Evolution on Our Terms

(7)

3. Cybergenesis: Of Men and the Smart Machine

(26)

Adding to the Measure of Man

(7)

Smart Machines Making Us Smarter

(9)

Cybergenesis and Human Destiny

(9)

4. Species Coalescence

105

(32)

The Global Transportation Grid

106

(8)

The Universal Production/Consumption System

114

(5)

The Planetary Communications System

119

(7)

Species Coalescence and Vitalization

126

(2)

Species Coalescence versus the "Global Brain" Phenomenon

128

(9)

5. Vitalizing the Universe: In the Heavens as It Is on Earth

137

(32)

A Torrent of Activity

138

(10)

Mars: The First Vital Step

148

(10)

Terraformation

158

(5)

How Vitalizing the Cosmos Will Change Mankind

163

(6)

6. The Expansionary Vision of Human Development

169

(34)

The Emerging Sense of Destiny

169

(8)

The Universe Beckons: The Coming Dominance of Anthropic Cosmology

177

(6)

Humankind's Purposive Self-Development

183

(10)

On Destiny and the Human Species

193

(10)

7. The Creation of the Humaniverse

203

(20)

Visions of the Humaniverse

204

(5)

The Gift of Consciousness

209

(3)

Species Coalescence, across the Cosmos, over Time

212

(4)

The Humaniverse, Not Gaia

216

(7)

8. The Battle for the Future

223

(32)

The Assault on the Idea of Humankind's Uniqueness

224

(19)

Cosmology Counts

243

(5)

The Battle over Growth and Scientific Progress

248

(7)

Epilogue: At the Threshold of the Expansionary Age

255

(4)

Appendix: Related Web Sites

259

(2)

Notes

261

(20)

Index

281

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