The economics of brain emulations
In P. Healey and S. Rayner (eds.) Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People, London, 2009, pp. 150–55
Abstract
Technologists think about specific future technologies, which they may foresee in some detail. Unfortunately, such technologists then mostly use amateur intuitions about the social world to predict the broader social implications of these technologies. This makes it hard for technologists to identify the technologies which will have the largest social impact.
