The Singularity Is Near
When Humans Transcend Biology
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Word Count
168,000 words, Guess
Page Count
672 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesingularityisnea00kurz_163
- Internet Archivesingularityisnea00kurz_045
- Internet Archivesingularityisnea00kurzrich
- ISBN-100670033847
- ISBN-139780670033843
and 2 more
- LibraryThing8365
- Open LibraryOL7641290M
Classifications
- DDC153.9
- LCCQP376 .K85 2005
Description
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.
First Sentence
I am not sure when I first became aware of the Singularity.
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