Mazlish, Bruce; The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines (Paperback)
According to Mazlish's, combots (computerized robots), enjoy a symbiotic relation with humans and may
transmogrify into a new species, while human beings, growing ever more mechanical in body and mind,
also turn into "something like a new species . . . Homo comboticus ," who will replace "precomputer
Man." People, asserts this MIT history professor, differ from machines only to a degree; the "fourth
discontinuity"--our mental separation from the machines we create--will soon end, he predicts.
This book notes the shocks to the human ego administered by Copernicus, Darwin and Freud, who
refuted human's differences from the solar system, the other animals and with our own subconscious
minds.
According to Mazlish's, combots (computerized robots), enjoy a symbiotic relation with humans and may
transmogrify into a new species, while human beings, growing ever more mechanical in body and mind,
also turn into "something like a new species . . . Homo comboticus ," who will replace "precomputer
Man." People, asserts this MIT history professor, differ from machines only to a degree; the "fourth
discontinuity"--our mental separation from the machines we create--will soon end, he predicts.
This book notes the shocks to the human ego administered by Copernicus, Darwin and Freud, who
refuted human's differences from the solar system, the other animals and with our own subconscious
minds.
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