AI, a new ‘superman’ and the fourth industrial revolution are just the latest revival of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Superman’ concept
“Man is something to be overcome,” wrote the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1883 classic Thus spake Zarathustra. “Man is a rope, tied between animal and superman – a rope over an abyss. The great thing about man is that he is a bridge and not an end.” When he wrote this, the famously… Read More »