When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
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American author, professional speaker
(born 1966)
Recommended by 8 notable people, including Stewart Brand and Brian Armstrong
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Kurzweil’s manifesto bombards you with trend lines and bulleted predictions, zooming out to a 2040s where humans merge with machines. The useful part: you get a detailed, almost cinematic vision of a radically altered future—health, energy, intelligence—that’s hard to find elsewhere. The drag: his certainty grates, the prose feels like a sales deck, and the middle chapters recycle the same exponential insight until you’re numb. You’ll either emerge fired up or fed up.
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A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development by "the best person I know at predicting the future of Artificial Intelligence," (Bill Gates).At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what i...
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Recommended by 15 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Philosophy.
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