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Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

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Chapter 5: The Race for Immortality<br />

$531bn (£352bn) by 2030. 149<br />

Marc Andreessen, IoT.<br />

Obviously, Andreessen <strong>and</strong> Google, in general, are playing a<br />

significant role in making <strong>the</strong> Singularity come true.<br />

Fig. 5-7: An artist’s interpretation <strong>of</strong> Kepler-186f, a potentially Earth-like exoplanet. [Source: NASA Ames/SETI<br />

Institute/JPL-CalTech]<br />

Let’s go from <strong>the</strong> Singularity at home to <strong>the</strong> Singularity in space. We<br />

149<br />

Ibid., op. cit.<br />

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