Preorder the ebook now (physical copies coming also)! Here’s the book on Goodreads. It’s not quite available for preorder, but it will be soon! We have a release date (Jan 27), and the book will soon be set up for all your favorite internet and local bookshops.
I need some kind of placeholder for the new book, and this page is it. 🙂 You’ll wanna just leave this tab open and reload it every once in a while.
Because in just a couple of weeks, maybe less, I’ll be able to share actual links for getting the book (in case anyone wants to).
I hope that you want to come along with me and join one of the big conversations of our time: what story will we tell about humanity, technology, and our future?
Advance praise for Futureproofing Humanity:
In Apocalyptic AI, Robert Geraci was far ahead of most of us in calling out the foibles of a small group of technologists who were attempting to foist off digital technology as a new God. In his new book, Futureproofing Humanity, he poses the same important questions about humanity, computing, and religion. Like Stewart Brand before him, he points out that the power of these new computing and genetic engineering technologies brings new responsibilities for humanity, and if we are to survive as a species we must take that responsibility seriously.
— John Markoff
Author of Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand and Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground between Humans and Robots
An insightful perspective on recent technology developments, the potential impact on our survival and our civilization, and on the possible futures envisioned by some of our contemporaries. Informed by a surprisingly rich history of thinkers worried about the possibilities we face today, Futureproofing Humanity is recommended to anybody concerned about the survival of humankind.
— Matthew T. Mason, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and Chief Scientist, Berkshire Grey
In Futureproofing Humanity, Robert Geraci offers a timely and important book. Part intellectual history, part cultural critique, and part fiction—Futureproofing Humanity examines how genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and space exploration have become the vessels for humanity’s oldest religious longings: immortality, resurrection, and cosmic purpose.
What makes this book so valuable is its refusal to simply debunk or celebrate the transhumanist vision. Instead, it takes seriously the religious dimensions of technological utopianism while asking hard questions about who gets saved and who gets left behind. From Nikolai Fedorov’s “Common Task” to Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity, from cryonics to colonizing Mars, the author traces how the promises once made by gods have been transferred to silicon and code—and what we lose and gain in that translation.
This is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of our current technological moment, when billionaires promise us the stars while the planet burns and AI chatbots pass the Turing test. The author writes with clarity, wit, and a scholar’s rigor, but also with genuine care for the human stakes involved. He reminds us that civilization—with all its flaws—is worth preserving, and that the myths we tell about our future shape the choices we make today.
— Ilia Delio, OSF, Ph. D.
Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair Villanova University
Robert M Geraci 