Part 1: The Dawn of the Ageless Era 1. Digital Intelligence - The Dream Child of Biological Intelligence 2. Biological Intelligence Achieving Ageless 3. Homo lucidus - Ageless, Pinnacle Intelligence, and Enlightened Needs 4. Lucidus Society - Abundance, Fairness, and Peace Part 2: Forging the New Human 5. Solid Body and Lucid Mind 6. Personal Network Rooted in Your Principles 7. Lucidus Learning Paradigm 8. Lucidus Vocation Paradigm Part 3: Forging Tutelary Digital Intelligence 9. From Value Alignment to Tutelary Digital Intelligence 10. Architecture of Tutelary Digital Intelligence 11. Data Generation and Preservation for Tutelary Digital Intelligence 12. Thriving with Tutelary Digital Intelligence Part 4: Seeking Vanguards for a Post-2045 World 13. The Inner Pursuits - Hedonist, Aesthete, Inquisitive, Cosmologist 14. The Outer Pursuits - Connector, Culturist, Anthroguard, Conservationist 15. Envision and Enabling Your Personal Future - Becoming a Vanguard of Homo lucidus Epilogue: To Prepare for the Future, Understand the Past
Biography
Min Ding is Bard Professor of Marketing at the Smeal College of Business; an Affiliate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University; and an honorary Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has held past visiting positions at the Australian National University, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Fudan University, MIT, University of Cambridge, and University of Cologne. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Customer Needs and Solutions. He received his second doctorate, a Ph.D. in Marketing with an additional concentration in Healthcare Management, from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2001. Previously, he had been awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from The Ohio State University in 1996, after completing a B.S. in Genetics and Genetic Engineering at Fudan University in 1989. He is the past V.P. for the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS). He is the author of several books that include Logical Creative Thinking Methods (2020, Routledge; 2023, China Machine Press, Chinese ed), Hualish (2019, English ed; Chinese ed), The Bubble Theory (2014, English ed; 2014, revised 2019, Chinese ed), The Chinese Way (2014, Routledge), and The Enlightened (2010), a novel. He is the co-founder of two nonprofit organizations, the House of Enlightened Needs based in Shanghai, China and the Hua Culture and Life Association located in State College, USA. He is a diehard trekkie.
