Original Title: Die digitale Seele
original edition
Hardcover with jacket,
592 pages,
13.5 x 21.5 cm,
5.3 x 8.5 in.
ISBN: 978-3-442-31541-3
€
20.00
[D]
|
€
20.60
[A]
|
CHF
28.90
*
(* rec. retail price)
recommended retail price
Publishing House:
Goldmann
Date of publication:
September 28, 2020
This title is available.
Kundenrezensionen:
(43)
 |
|
 |
Lesen & Suchen mit dem Flash-Reader |
| Um unseren Flash-Reader nutzen zu können, benötigen Sie eine aktuelle Flash-Version. Download now from www.adobe.com. | |
A fascinating journey into the Great Digital Beyond
Humanity has dreamt of eternal life since time immemorial. But it's a dream that has remained unfulfilled – until now. Thanks to spectacular advances in machine learning, immortality is becoming a distinct prospect. Around the world, tech companies are employing vast amounts of user data to create digital doppelgangers, and in the twenty-first century, as more and more people turn away from religion, and neuroscience has declared the demise of the very idea of the soul, belief in life after death is undergoing an unexpected renaissance.
In The Digital Soul, Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block take us on a fascinating journey into the Great Digital Beyond, introducing us to the tech pioneers as well as to those hoping to immortalise themselves as digital clones, and ask the biggest question of all: What happens to us, when the one thing we can be sure of – our mortality – is taken away? They conclude that eternal life is indeed possible – but not as we imagine it.
"The authors undertake a journey into the digital beyond while posing existentialist questions from a modern-day perspective."
NDR Kultur
Categories
© Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
Weiter zu www.penguinrandomhouse.de