The singularity is near
when humans transcend biology
by Ray Kurzweil
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A controversial scientific vision predicts a time in which humans and machines will merge and create a new form of non-biological intelligence, explaining how the occurrence will solve such issues as pollution, hunger, and aging.
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Brain, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Nonfiction, Science, Sociology, Technology, Nanotechnologie, Cerveau, Évolution, Robotique, Neural Networks (Computer), Génétique, Artificial Intelligence, Homme, Popular works, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Développement humain, Future Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Robots, Nanotechnologies, 58.30 biotechnology, Genetique, Entwicklung, Rocks, Computer Neural Networks, Evolutionary biology, Artificial intelligence, Gesellschaft, Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt, Biological Evolution, Robotik, Brain, evolutionShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The Singularity Is Near
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
September 26, 2006, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
September 22, 2005, Viking Adult
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The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology
2005, Viking/Penguin Group, Viking Adult
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Table of Contents
| The six epochs | ||
| A theory of technology evolution : the law of accelerating returns | ||
| Achieving the computational capacity of the human brain | ||
| Achieving the software of human intelligence : how to reverse engineer the human brain | ||
| GNR : three overlapping revolutions | ||
| The impact ... | ||
| Ich bin ein singularitarian | ||
| The deeply intertwined promise and peril of GNR | ||
| Response to critics | ||
| Epilogue. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"I am not sure when I first became aware of the 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.
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