The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

The Age of Spiritual Machines

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.


About author(s)
Ray Kurzweil is a prize-winning author and scientist. Recipient of the MIT-Lemelson Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), and inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame, he received the 1999 National Medal of Technology. His books include:How to Create a Mind:  The Secret of Human Thought Revealedwww.howtocreateamind.comViking, November 2012               Transcend:  Nine Steps to Living Well Foreverwww.rayandterry.com/transcend/Rodale Books, April 2009 The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biologywww.Singularity.comViking / Penguin Books, September 2005Duckworth, March 2006 (British Edition)6 Foreign editions, including Korean, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Czech, Turkish Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, co-authored with Terry Grossman, M.D.www.Fantastic-Voyage.net  Rodale Books, October 2004Rodale Books, May 2005 (British Edition)5 Foreign editions, including French, Portugese, Korean, Chinese, and Czech Are We Spiritual Machines: Ray Kurzweil versus the Critics of Strong AIThe Discovery Institute Press (2002) The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human IntelligenceViking/Penguin Books, 1999Orion Books, 1999 (British Edition)Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1999 (German Edition)Allen & Unwin, 1999 (Australian Edition)12 Foreign editions, including German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Hebrew. The  10% Solution for a Healthy LifeCrown Publishers, 1993Bookman Press (Australian Edition), 1993Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995 The Age of Intelligent MachinesMIT Press, 1990MIT Press Paperback Edition, 1992Hanser Verlag (German Edition), 1993Conacyt (Spanish Edition), 1994

The Age of Spiritual Machines

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.


About author(s)
Ray Kurzweil is a prize-winning author and scientist. Recipient of the MIT-Lemelson Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), and inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame, he received the 1999 National Medal of Technology. His books include:How to Create a Mind:  The Secret of Human Thought Revealedwww.howtocreateamind.comViking, November 2012               Transcend:  Nine Steps to Living Well Foreverwww.rayandterry.com/transcend/Rodale Books, April 2009 The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biologywww.Singularity.comViking / Penguin Books, September 2005Duckworth, March 2006 (British Edition)6 Foreign editions, including Korean, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Czech, Turkish Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, co-authored with Terry Grossman, M.D.www.Fantastic-Voyage.net  Rodale Books, October 2004Rodale Books, May 2005 (British Edition)5 Foreign editions, including French, Portugese, Korean, Chinese, and Czech Are We Spiritual Machines: Ray Kurzweil versus the Critics of Strong AIThe Discovery Institute Press (2002) The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human IntelligenceViking/Penguin Books, 1999Orion Books, 1999 (British Edition)Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1999 (German Edition)Allen & Unwin, 1999 (Australian Edition)12 Foreign editions, including German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Hebrew. The  10% Solution for a Healthy LifeCrown Publishers, 1993Bookman Press (Australian Edition), 1993Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995 The Age of Intelligent MachinesMIT Press, 1990MIT Press Paperback Edition, 1992Hanser Verlag (German Edition), 1993Conacyt (Spanish Edition), 1994

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