Summa Technologiae
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Summa Technologiae
Stanisław Lem
6 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2013–2026.
What people on Hacker News said
I have read Summa Technologiae and everything is in there. And I mean everything. I have yet to see any new horizons for humanity he hasn't covered back in the sixties.
For me the single most distressing idea is that we might want to limit the speed of research in order to be able to integrate it, because the exponential growth would otherwise beat humanity's ability to adapt, leading to very turbulent situations.
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