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The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
"Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence. " Bill Gates
Viking
September 2005
672 pages
ISBN: 0670033847
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the
best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of
machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he
envisions an event—the "singularity"—in which technological
change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and
brains will merge with our machines.
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like
after this event— a human- machine civilization where our
experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and
where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions
of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that
human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger
will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by
nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology,
including death; and virtually any physical product can be
created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near
also considers the social and philosophical ramifications
of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most
widely discussed and provocative books of 2005.
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