The Great Vanishing in the Secret Life of Software

Software has a secret life. Nobody has given it much thought. Software is actually part of everything , and this book tries to unravel the software in everything – whether in the story of DNA, or how evolution and the brain use software, how intelligence and consciousness works now and can work in the future, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the rise of the internet, the world wide web, and the rise of the IT Superpowers. Unravelling the software in everything also eventually leads to considering the future of machine consciousness & machine life, of the world wide web, of the Singularity, (a possible future event where machines overtake humans), and finally, how intelligent, sentient & conscious living machines can share the planet with humans, or end up in conflict with them. This book uses all that has past, as the basis to RETHINK everything about software & life & the future as we know it. Out of all this a vanishing process was found. Hidden in plain sight. What exactly is vanishing became the surprise and enthralling centrepiece of this book. —- ISBN: 9781763611092 | ISBN10: 1763611094 | ISBN-13: 978-1763611092