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The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come.
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major films (Her, Lucy, Ex Machina), and thousands of articles. During the succeeding decade many of Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have been borne out, and their viability has become familiar to the public through such now commonplace concepts as AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology.
In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever.
“These are the most exciting and momentous years in all of history. We cannot say with confidence what life will be like after the Singularity. But by understanding and anticipating the transitions leading up to it, we can help ensure that humanity's final approach is safe and successful.”
—Ray Kurzweil, from the Introduction
“These are the most exciting and momentous years in all of history. We cannot say with confidence what life will be like after the Singularity. But by understanding and anticipating the transitions leading up to it, we can help ensure that humanity's final approach is safe and successful.”
—Ray Kurzweil, from the Introduction
“These are the most exciting and momentous years in all of history. We cannot say with confidence what life will be like after the Singularity. But by understanding and anticipating the transitions leading up to it, we can help ensure that humanity's final approach is safe and successful.”
—Ray Kurzweil, from the Introduction
“These are the most exciting and momentous years in all of history. We cannot say with confidence what life will be like after the Singularity. But by understanding and anticipating the transitions leading up to it, we can help ensure that humanity's final approach is safe and successful.”
—Ray Kurzweil, from the Introduction
“Ray Kurzweil’s Moore’s Law abstraction is the most important thing ever graphed. Its continuity — over his lifetime of writing — is the greatest take-away for the future of humanity, and the future of intelligence.”
—Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Future Ventures
Among the topics Ray Kurzweil discusses are:
- Rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots
- Radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120
- Reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud
- How exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence
- The growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing, which can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs
“Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Nearer is to information technology what Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was to life science – a cogent, fact-based, clear-eyed, multi-disciplinary exposition of a fundamental truth about the world. Just as Darwin demonstrated that all life branched from eons of antecedent roots, Kurzweil shows that epochs of compounding information processing is resulting in a merger of humanity and computational software."
—Martine Rothblatt, PhD, Creator of SiriusXM, United Therapeutics, electric helicopters and the Bina48 robot
“Ray explores mounting evidence that we are — right now — on the brink of a new human civilization. We’ll experience life in a whole new way. Ray shows us how it’s all coming together, today. His evidence overwhelms and inspires. It’s shocking, hopeful, scary, disruptive, poignant, personal, industrial, positive, global, cosmic, and — ultimately — indisputable. Everyone seriously concerned about the future should read this book.”
—Dean Kamen, Inventor, entrepreneur, youth educator, award-winning mechanical engineer, recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Technology, inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
“My view of the future has been forever impacted by Ray Kurzweil. Twenty-four years ago, he predicted AI would reach human-level intelligence by 2029. His vision seemed like a dream and yet here we are, right on track. This book will challenge everything you know about technology, life, and death. It will light you up with answers to today’s most pressing questions about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity.”
—Tony Robbins, Global Entrepreneur, Investor, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author, Philanthropist, and the World’s #1 Life and Business Strategist
“Kurzweil makes a compelling case with data and persuasive logic that technological advances give us reason for optimism. It is only 2023 and already the world he envisioned years ago is taking shape. Curious about the Future? Read this book!”
—Vint Cerf, a Father of the Internet and Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
About Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind, both New York Times bestsellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.
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