新知:Must know terms for today‘s intelligentsia

Must know terms for today‘s intelligentsia
 
Atthe dawn of European humanism, Florentines believed that reading Dantewhile ignoring science was ridiculous. Similarly, Leonardo da Vinci andMichelangelo both recognized the great importance of understandingscience, technology and engineering.
Despite thesetrail-blazers, not much has changed since then; a startling number ofso-called ‘intellectuals‘ remain grossly ignorant of pendingtechnologies and the revealing sciences (the postmodernists immediatelycome to mind). Today‘s intelligentsia, in order to qualify for such adesignation, must have the requisite vocabulary with which to addressvalid social concerns and effectively assess the future.
Here is a list of must-know terms (there are many, many more, but these are IMO the most critical and fundamental):
accelerating change
artificial general intelligence
augmented reality
automation
cosmological eschatology
existential risks
Fermi Paradox
friendly AI
human enhancement
human exceptionalism (aka human racism)
information theoretic death
memetic engineering
mind transfer (aka ‘uploading‘)
molecular assembler
engineered negligible senescence
non-anthropocentric personhood
neural interface device
open source
participatory panopticon
political globalization
post-scarcity economy
postbiological organism
posthuman
quantum computation
radical Luddism
remedial ecology
self-improving and autopotent intelligence
self-replicating device
substrate chauvinism
Simulation Argument
Singularity
superintelligence
ubiquitous surveillance
uplift
virtual reality
Pleaselet me know if you feel I have left something out, or if you believesomething does not belong on this list. For example, I wanted tomention advanced weapons, but that seems awfully vague. In particular,I‘m thinking of autonomous robotic soldiers, neuro-weapons, advancednon-lethal weapons, and non-human decision making on the battlefield.Also, I would have liked to mention something about how consciousnessis still a hard problem in science, but I‘m not sure how I couldencapsulate that in a simple term.