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The Story of the Chessboard
The classic parable of how the inventor of the game of chess used his knowledge of exponential growth to trick an emperor is commonly used to explain the staggering and accelerating growth of technology. The 33rd square on the chessboards represents the first step into the second half of the chessboard, where exponential growth takes off.
33rd Square explores technological progress in AI, robotics, genomics, neuroscience, nanotechnology, art, design and the future as humanity encroaches on The Singularity.
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, where he first found the idea of a corporate-sponsored afterlife and Rudy Rucker's trippy Postsingular
, which introduced Scott to the frightening notion of consciousness slums.
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