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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Paperback

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Paperback

by Ray Kurzweil
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Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an "elaborate, smart, and persuasive" (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development.

"Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world."--Los Angeles Times
"Startling in scope and bravado."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"An important book."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity.

While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, The Singularity Is Near presents a radical and optimistic 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.
ISBN9780143037880
Author Ray Kurzweil
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreEducation and Technology
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages672
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years - longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a GRAMMY(R) Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

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