The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1987 book The Age of Intelligent Machines. In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil attempts to give a glimpse of what awaits us in the near future. Kurzweil's speculative reasoning and selective use of growth indicators (see criticisms levelled here Technological Singularity), much of which has be...
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Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced /kɚtswaɪl/) (born February 12, 1948) is an inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books...
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a book by futurist Ray Kurzweil about the future course of humanity, particularly relating to the development of... …
Date of first publication: Jan 1, 1999
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