1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953239303321

Autore

Goertzel Ben

Titolo

The path to posthumanity : 21st century technology and its radical implications for mind, society and reality / / Ben Goertzel, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethesda, MD, : Academica Press, c2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (633 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BugajStephan Vladimir

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Technological forecasting

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PRELUDE PESSIMISTS FROM YEARS PAST""; ""CHAPTER 1 THE COMING CONVERGENCE""; ""CHAPTER 2 NEURAL NETS AND ARTIFICIAL BRAINS""; ""CHAPTER 3 THE CHALLENGE OF REAL AI1""; ""CHAPTER 4 NANOTECHNOLOGY GETS REAL""; ""CHAPTER 5 UPLOADING: LIBERATING MINDS FROM BRAINS""; ""CHAPTER 6 THE CYBORGIZATION OF HUMANITY""; ""CHAPTER 7 THE NEW GENETICS""; ""CHAPTER 8 THE QUEST FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY""; ""CHAPTER 9 CRYONICS COMES OF AGE""; ""CHAPTER 10 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL EQUATION""

""CHAPTER 11 CURING POVERTY WITH COMPUTING?""""CHAPTER 12 EXTROPIAN ELITISM AND HUMANIST POSTHUMANISM""; ""CHAPTER 13 SONG FROM THE DIGITAL FOREST""; ""CHAPTER 14 MINDPLEXES""; ""CHAPTER 15 CREATING A POSITIVE TRANSCENSION""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

Describing the near future technologies and scientific changes that will affect human life in the next 25 years, this book covers key topics in artificial intelligence, as well as looking at computing and biotechnology.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959219903321

Autore

Bryden Alan

Titolo

International law, politics and inhumane weapons : the effectiveness of global landmine regimes / / Alan Bryden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-21996-X

1-283-60640-2

9786613918857

1-136-21997-8

0-203-09680-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Law, conflict and international relations

Disciplina

341.7/3

341.73

Soggetti

Humanitarian law

Land mines (International law)

Mines (Military explosives) (International law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

International Law, Politics and Inhumane Weapons The effectiveness of global landmine regimes; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 The design, implementation and effectiveness of global landmine regimes; 2 Regimes prohibiting the use in war of poison gas and dum dum bullets; 3 The emergence of the landmine regimes; 4 Implementing the landmine regimes; 5 Humanitarian demining; 6 Stockpile destruction; 7 The effectiveness of global landmine regimes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines.Two treaties have emerged under IHL in response to the humanitarian scourge of landmines. However, despite a considerable body of related literature, clear understandings have not been established on the effectiveness of these international legal frameworks in meeting the challenges that prompted



their creation. This book seeks to address this lacuna. An analytical framework grounded in regime theory helps m