{"id":35,"date":"2015-04-21T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:53:37","slug":"summa-technologiae-lems-grim-sober-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/summa-technologiae-lems-grim-sober-singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Summa Technologiae&#8221; \u2013 Lem\u2019s grim, sober Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/427px-Summa_Technologiae_Czech_Magnet_Press_1995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/427px-Summa_Technologiae_Czech_Magnet_Press_1995-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Summa Technologiae Stanislaw Lem\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/427px-Summa_Technologiae_Czech_Magnet_Press_1995-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/427px-Summa_Technologiae_Czech_Magnet_Press_1995.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>If <a title=\"see more about this book\" href=\"http:\/\/english.lem.pl\/works\/essays\/summa-technologiae\"><i>Summa Technolologiae<\/i><\/a> had been translated to English immediately after publication, some of the neologisms coined by Lem for technologies that didn\u2019t exist at the time would be still used today. So Google would do \u201cariadnology\u201d (a guide to the labyrinth of the already assembled knowledge), virtual reality would be \u201cphantomatics,\u201d neuroscience would be \u201ccerebromatics,\u201d and artificial intelligence would be \u201cIntelectronics.\u201d In all cases, Lem imagines developments more advanced than today\u2019s technology \u2013 for example phantomatics and cerebromatics provide full stimulation of all senses via direct neural interfaces with instant feedback loops, influencing mental processes while bypassing afferent neural pathways, and intelectronics achieves consciousness and intelligence amplification in machines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"see full review\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/stanisaw-lems-summa-technologiae-portrays-a-grim-and-s-1498640982\">see full review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Summa Technolologiae had been translated to English immediately after publication, some of the neologisms coined by Lem for technologies that didn\u2019t exist at the time would be still used today. So Google would do \u201cariadnology\u201d (a guide to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/summa-technologiae-lems-grim-sober-singularity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-summa-technologiae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.lem.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}