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About the book
A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Age of Spiritual Machines 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. 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.
People recommending The Singularity Is Near
What readers say about ‘The Singularity Is Near’
Stewart Brand on The Singularity Is Near
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
Brian Armstrong on The Singularity Is Near
"Many major problems, like education and disease, will be totally transformed by this in our lifetimes."
Jason Silva on The Singularity Is Near
One of the books in a "list of favorite books" Jason Silva tweeted about.
Peter Diamandis on The Singularity Is Near
"Was the basis for the foundation of Singularity University."
Marc Goodman on The Singularity Is Near
"Has shown [...] that there is this persistent exponential pace of technology."