The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

By J. Craig Wheeler

Categories: Computers & Technology, Science & Math

The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity (2024) is a book by astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, a University of Texas at Austin astronomy professor and past president of the American Astronomical Society. It has a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Wheeler examines how fast-moving technologies such as artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and robotics may reshape society, the economy and the human species itself.

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson: “When such an occasion presents itself to the reader, run, don't walk to experience it. The views are enlightening, insightful, and occasionally mind-blowing. You will never see the world the same way. (Foreword written for this book, per his official site.)”