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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Paperback - 2006
by Ray Kurzweil
In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, a great inventor and futurist envisions an event--the "singularity"--in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that human bodies and brains will merge with machines.
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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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- Title The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
- Author Ray Kurzweil
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 672
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2006-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143037880 / 0143037889
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.6 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Nanotechnology, Robotics
- Dewey Decimal Code 153.9
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Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world. (Los Angeles Times)
A pleasure to read. (The Wall Street Journal)
The best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence (Bill Gates)
A pleasure to read. (The Wall Street Journal)
The best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence (Bill Gates)
Citations
- Christianity Today, 02/01/2009, Page 24
- Library Journal, 04/01/2015, Page 45
- New York Review of Books, 11/24/2011, Page 45
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