Smartphones, care robots and self-driving cars - they are on their way or already exist out there. Products around us are becoming smarter and more autonomous. The increasingly intimate connection between humans and technology is one of the big stories of our time.
What does this mean for our autonomy and humanity? And how can the growing world population - already over 7 billion at the moment - collaborate to create a liveable world for all of us? Save the Humans demonstrates how we have already made our way towards a different type of human without having realised it.
This colourfully designed book contains over 100 quotations from modern and classic thinkers. Artists, scientists, philosophers, politicians and entrepreneurs: from Einstein to Coco Chanel, and from Mark Zuckerberg to Obama.
Save the Humans takes stock of the free and creative human thinking of our time and in a critical and accessible manner reveals the consequences of the upcoming changes. The quotes cover the most important threats for the continuation of our humanity; Will we get trapped in our own systems? Will robots take over our work and rob us of our jobs? Will the planet become uninhabitable? Will humanity fall apart? Finally, we investigate the concept of utopia: a world in which humans have been saved. Perhaps our dreams will come true. Perhaps we will be able to fly like the birds. Maybe we'll travel to faraway planets to populate the universe. Perhaps, instead of just saving the panda, we also need to save the human.