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  • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
  • Written by: Ray Kurzweil
  • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
  • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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The Age of Spiritual Machines

Written by: Ray Kurzweil
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
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The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines—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.
©Ray Kurzweil, 1998; ©1998 Penguin Audiobooks
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"Kurzweil’s broad outlook and fresh approach make his optimism hard to resist."—Kirkus Reviews

"This is a book for computer enthusiasts, science fiction writers in search of cutting-edge themes and anyone who wonders where human technology is going next."—The New York Times

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Mythically Optimis

Nice to read such optimistic view of future. Lot of them have come true and some of them will be tested in future. Would have been more fantasizing to read when the book was written.

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