raymond kurzweil the singularity is near

PRAISE FOR THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR 'Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.' Los Angeles Times 'Elaborate, smart and persuasive.' The Boston Globe 'A pleasure to read. Read more 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. A controversial scientific vision predicts a time in which humans and machines will merge and create a new form of non-biological intelligence, explaining how. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best.

'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York Times A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates calls 'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.' For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. He describes the singularity as a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Num Pages: 683 pages, 67 tables and graphs. Kurzweil refers to this as the singularity. This title offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny. Examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine.

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Raymond kurzweil the singularity is near