X-risk : (Record no. 303)

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fixed length control field 200217t20202020enka b 001 0 eng c
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781913029845
International Standard Book Number 1913029840
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1140727036
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Original cataloging agency YDX
Language of cataloging eng
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QH78
Item number .M69 2020
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Moynihan, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name 1992-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title X-risk :
Remainder of title how humanity discovered its own extinction /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Thomas Moynihan
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Falmouthม U.K. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Urbanomic,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 472 p. :
Other physical details ill.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-458) and indexes
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- X-Risk: A Timeline -- 0. Introduction: Why a History of the Future? -- 1. A Very Rational End of the World -- 2. Cosmic Silences: Astrobiology -- 3. Earth Systems: Geoscience -- 4. Future Trajectories: Forecasting -- 5. Internal Contradictions: Omnicide -- 6. Physical Salvation: Vocation -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanity's future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history. Tracing this untold story, Moynihan revisits the pioneers who first contemplated the possibility of human extinction and stages the historical drama of this momentous discovery. He shows how, far from being a secular reprise of religious prophecies of apocalypse, existential risk is a thoroughly modern idea, made possible by the burgeoning sciences and philosophical tumult of the Enlightenment era. In recollecting how we first came to care for our extinction, Moynihan reveals how today's attempts to measure and mitigate existential threats are the continuation of a project initiated over two centuries ago, which concerns the very vocation of the human as a rational, responsible, and future-oriented being.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Extinction (Biology)
Topical term or geographic name entry element Human beings.
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