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by Ray Kurzweil
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The "ultimate thinking machine" ("Forbes")--whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative, and closer to fruition than one might think--takes a serious and surprising look at the future that reads like great science fiction and offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century. Illustrations & diagrams. (Technology)
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Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
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As we start at the beginning, we will notice an unusual attribute of the nature of time, one that is critical to our passage to the twenty-first century.
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Step into the world of Ray Kurzweil, the "restless genius" (Wall Street Journal) and "ultimate thinking machine" (Forbes), whose predictions for an age in which man and machine are interchangeable are startling, provocative -- and closer to realization than you think.
Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil, the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era. In his inspired hands, life in the new millennium no longer seems daunting. Instead, it promises to be an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live.
More than just a list of predictions, Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in: computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Eventually, the distinction between humans and computers will have become sufficiently blurred that when the machines claim to be conscious, we will believe them.
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- Title The Age of Spiritual Machines
- Author Ray Kurzweil
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Penguin Bks 2000
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Publication date 2000-01-01
- ISBN 9780140282023 / 0140282025
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.02 x 0.89 in (23.47 x 15.29 x 2.26 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Category Computers - General Information
- Library of Congress subjects Computers, Artificial intelligence
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00004569
- Dewey Decimal Code 006.3
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- Library Journal, 04/01/2015, Page 45
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