The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by:
Ray Kurzweil (author)
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the...
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143037880 (0143037889)
Publish date: September 26th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 652
Edition language: English
Gave up. Just too much of a slog to get to the meat of his ideas. I really am interested in the ideas but I started dreading reading through all the stats.
"Not for everyone, but was for me"I know not everyone will love the book, but I did and I know some others will too. Usually I don't like predictions about the future since the future is so hard to see accurately but I think Kurzweil does such an outstanding job. If statements like the universe will...
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