The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcent Biology (Paperback)
$21.52 - Save $0.48 (2%) - RRP $22.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Singularity is Near In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, a great inventor and futurist envisions an event--the "singularity"--in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that human bodies and brains will merge with machines.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin USA
- Published: 01 October 2006
- Format: Paperback 652 pages
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- Categories: Social Forecasting, Future Studies | Philosophy Of Science | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Evolution | Nanotechnology | Biotechnology | Robotics
- ISBN 13: 9780143037880 ISBN 10: 0143037889
- Sales rank: 10,746
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Full description for The Singularity is Near
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.
