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| Original Title: | The Singularity Is Near |
| ISBN: | 0143037889 (ISBN13: 9780143037880) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ray Kurzweil
Trade Paperback | Pages: 652 pages Rating: 3.94 | 9526 Users | 832 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology |
| Author | : | Ray Kurzweil |
| Book Format | : | Trade Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 652 pages |
| Published | : | September 26th 2006 by Penguin (first published September 22nd 2005) |
| Categories | : | Science. Nonfiction. Technology. Philosophy. Futurism. Artificial Intelligence. Singularity |
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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.Rating Based On Books The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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While I praise Kurzweil for his forward thinking and attempt to tackle future technological issues before they arise, in many respects he falls under the category of "scientists that spend too much time in their laboratory who consequently don't understand that just because a thing is possible doesn't mean that the rest of society will want to suddenly adopt it as well." If, in the near future, we are capable of relinquishing our physical forms for upgraded digital ones does not mean that peopleRay Kurzweil suggests that exponential trends in information technology will usher in world changing revolutions in Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robotics. By the year 2040 there will be little left of our biological intelligence. Eventually, once we have harnessed the maximum computational capacity of matter, we will expand out from our solar system. He believes that there will be a way to circumvent the speed of light, so pretty soon we're going to be a universe spanning intelligence.So we will
If I could give this book 10 stars I would. I am a big fan of scifi with some slight understanding of and interest in the Singularity for quite some time. So when I saw this book at a friends house, I asked if I could borrow it and I am so glad I did. This is one of those books that has the potential to forever change the way you think about life, the universe and everything. And no, the answer is not 42. In this book, Kurzweil, who has the credentials to back up what he is writing about,
This was my second attempt at reading this book. I seemed daunting and dull at first glance but was fascinating on audio. Kurzwell is a noted scientist, as he calls himself -- a singularitarian. Specifically, his studies include how humans will transcend biology and incorporate (or be incorporated by) technology. He notes how the process has begun and at the accomplishment of singularity, enhanced humans will have the advantage of extensive memory and processing skills as well as corrected DNA.
I'm not sure to be the right guy to review such a book. Why? I'd lie if I told that I understood everything Kurzweil explained in it. O.K. the author tried hard to make it more understandable: he put as much as possible in graphs and statistics, pictures, examples of the ordinary life and so on. All these tools should help us to understand, but... this is still a book written by a nerd for nerds. And don't you know that graphs and stats lie? Furthermore, in French we say: "Comparaison n'est pas
A lot of the technology he talks about is undoubtedly cool, and I do believe it'll happen. Scientists WILL create a lot of these things, for sure. But the issue I have with the book is how naively optimistic it is about this technology being readily available to everyone. He briefly touches on this criticism, and his argument is: while it's true that there's a lot of inequality in the world, even poor rural people in China have cellphones, so everyone will have [nanobots in their bloodstream, VR
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray KurzweilKurzweil characterizes evolution throughout all time as progressing through six epochs, each one building on the one before. He says the four epochs which have occurred so far are Physics and Chemistry, Biology and DNA, Brains, and Technology. Kurzweil predicts the Singularity will coincide with the next epoch, The Merger of Human Technology with Human Intelligence. After the Singularity he says the final epoch will occur, The
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