• The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review – AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity

    The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review – AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity
    The DeepMind co-founder calls for the ‘containment’ of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for usWhat is it with wave metaphors? Technological determinists – people who believe that technology drives history – love them. Think of Alvin Toffler, who saw the history of civilisation as a succession of three such waves (agricultural, industrial and post-industrial). The idea is of immense power, unstoppable, moving inexorably towar