Title: What’s Next in 3031
Author: Geoffrey Keane
Publisher: Pageturner Press and Media, LLC
ISBN: 978-1638710462
Pages: 404
Genre: Science Fiction
Reviewed by: Lily Amanda
Hollywood Book Reviews
“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, and we will have multiplied the intelligence – the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization – a billion-fold.” This is a quote from Ray Kurzweil, an American inventor who echoes what is in this remarkable read. What’s Next in 3031 is a knowledgeable science-fiction text set a thousand years into the future. Being futuristic, the story is speculative and analytical and focuses on a time when families will own their personal android servants, a manufactured being made out of synthetic bone, muscle, and skin, having a computer for a brain.
Scientists and doctors working together in the U.S have developed a way to link human psychic thought with electronic memory and data processing functions. The author speculates that android technology will become a huge factor in the improved quality of life. Families that can afford android servants will purchase them in their homes.
This cerebral tome tells the story of a young married couple, Bill and Justina Simms, and how their lives are changed by these new robotics. Over time, they become wiser and more aware, acknowledging and appreciating the intellectual abilities of resourceful machines.
Author Geoffrey Keane brilliantly explores a wide range of cultivated topics such as political realism and societal ethics. This is an exciting, and at times philosophical, study whose information-packed chapters move with speed. Though written with command, the text is easily reachable to all because of its clear explanations and the presence of an easy imaginative tale that the author has used to give live comparisons. The author delights in anticipating a near future that will have android servants available and within reach to all. The brainy read moves with purpose which allows the storyline to bloom.
Further, the editing is professionally done making What Next in 3031 an easy read. This is by no means a light read but a heavy, informative text in considering what technology will foster in human lives, as time marches on into the future. Science fiction enthusiasts will find this fascinating publication by Geoffrey Keanne, an insightful and thought-provoking read.