The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
 

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

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... (read more)

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8string
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This is a groundbreaking and amazing book. Ray Kurzweil is one of the most revolutionary thinkers alive today. This book is very hard to read at times, but brings one of the most interesting views of human future that I've ever read. If your into science fiction, you owe it to yourself to read what many will consider a science fiction view of the world based on extrapolation by one of the greatest inventors of our time. I've met Ray and had lunch with him, and I consider it among my most...

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HeIsSailing
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"The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology", by Ray Kurzweil. Finished reading 24 April 2008. 2/5 stars. The technological and biological world predicted in the next 20-50 years by Kurzweil is, how shall I put it delicately... frightening. Can you imagine a world where humanity will have transcended their own biology to such an extent that they will debate on what it means to even be human? The world presented in this book is that of transhumanism - the future of...

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  • Ash H

    ash h said:

    Is this still worth reading? Or is it out-of-date now?

    posted Monday, June 2 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
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