"Many thinkers believe that the next transformational change in human organization will be the onset of human-level artificial intelligence (the 'singularity'), and that the most likely method of achieving this will come through brain emulations or "ems": the ability to scan human brains and program their connections into ever faster computers. Taking this as his starting point, Hanson describes what a world dominated by these ems will be like"--Publisher's website.

Basics. Start ; Modes ; Framing ; Assumptions ; Implementation -- Physics. Scales ; Infrastructure ; Appearances ; Information ; Existence ; Farewells -- Economics. Labor ; Efficiency ; Work ; Business ; Growth ; Lifecycle -- Organization. Clumping ; Groups ; Conflict ; Politics ; Rules -- Sociology. Mating ; Signals ; Collaboration ; Society ; Minds -- Implications. Variations ; Choices ; Finale.