Novascene

James Lovelock

Novacene

James Lovelock in his book Novascene tests our understanding of future evolution by depicting a world where humans are slow beings surrounded by hyperintelligent cyborgs. The term ‘cyborg’ was coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in1960. It refers to a cybernetic organism: an organism as self-sufficient as one of us but made of engineered materials. These cyborgs are human made to regulate the worlds climate to ensure our survival. In this book Lovelock describes how we will reach a point where we need technology to intervene in the process and structure of the entire planet. He does not see this as an scary future, but as an “continuation of the process whereby the Earth nurtures the understanders, the beings that will lead the cosmos to self-knowledge.”

James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system