Totalement inhumaine by Jean-Michel Truong, Le Seuil, 100 FF, ISBN
2846710171
IF YOU decide to write on a subject as momentous as what kind of intelligence
may succeed humanity, publish in Paris. There, the clever and the playful are
expected, not suspected. And you can skip writing the introductory ten-chapter
beginner’s guide to everything that English-speaking publishers insist on. Your
audience will have read their Descartes, Nietzsche and Turing, and know where
they disagree with them.
Jean-Michel Truong’s title, which translates as “utterly inhuman”, refers to
what he calls the Successor—an intelligence housed in silicon, not the
squishy stuff…
