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'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York Times A radical and
optimistic view of the future course of human development from the
bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates calls
'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial
intelligence.' 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. PRAISE FOR THE
SINGULARITY IS NEAR 'Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better
world.' Los Angeles Times 'Elaborate, smart and persuasive.' The
Boston Globe 'A pleasure to read.' The Wall Street Journal An
Amazon Best Science Book of 2005 A CBS News Best Autumn Books of
2005 A St Louis Post-Dispatch Best Nonfiction Book of 2005
'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of
artificial intelligence.' Bill Gates In How to Create a Mind, Ray
Kurzweil offers a provocative exploration of the most important
project in human-machine civilisation: reverse engineering the
brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge
to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil explores how the
brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the
implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in
addressing the world's problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional
and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and
envisions the radical - arguably inevitable - future of our merging
with the intelligent technology we are creating.
In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry
Grossman, MD, present a cutting edge, accessible program based on
the vanguard in nutrition and science. They've distilled thousands
of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in
medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life
expectancies and slow the aging process.
Transcend gives you the practical tools you need to live long
enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of
the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will
continue to occur at an accelerating pace during the years ahead.
To help you remember the nine key components of the program, Ray
and Terry have arranged them into a mnemonic: Talk with your
doctor, Relaxation, Assessment, Nutrition, Supplements, Calorie
reduction, Exercise, New technologies, Detoxification.
This easy-to-follow program will help you transcend the boundaries
of your genetic legacy and live
long enough to live forever.
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.
The bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is
Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the
human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential-and
often controversial-futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil
presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in
human-machine civilization-reverse engineering the brain to
understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to
create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the
brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the
implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in
addressing the world's problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional
and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and
envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the
intelligent technology we are creating. Certain to be one of the
most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to
Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil's
previous classics which include Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough
to Live Forever and The Age of Spiritual Machines.
First published in 1958, John von Neumann's classic work The
Computer and the Brain explored the analogies between computing
machines and the living human brain. Von Neumann showed that the
brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its
own unique statistical language. And more than fifty years after
its inception the von Neumann architecture - an organizational
framework for computer design - still lies at the heart of today's
machines. In his foreword to this new edition, Ray Kurzweil, a
futurist famous for his own musings on the relationship between
technology and consciousness, places von Neumann's work in a
historical context and shows how it remains relevant today.
"Death and Anti-Death" collects essays by professional philosophers
and scholars on issues related to death, life extension, and
anti-death, broadly construed.
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