Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Can Achieve the Impossible

It is available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group Inc. Imagine flying over a major city at night -- say, Chicago or Paris or Beijing -- and it is completely dark below. It is just a void of light akin to nighttime in the middle of the ocean. Then imagine someone flips on the power grid, and you see today's web of human activity light up. Imagine further that someone flips the switch again, and you glimpse a future image of the city. Where you once thought there was nothing, there is a universe of action -- both present and future.