Description
Ray Kurzweil offers a provocative vision of a future shaped by the accelerating convergence of computing, artificial intelligence, and human biology. Drawing on technological trends and scientific projections, he explores how machines may surpass human capabilities, develop increasingly convincing personalities, and become integrated into everyday relationships and experience. The book examines the philosophical and practical consequences of blurred boundaries between mind and machine, including questions of consciousness, identity, and what it means to be human. Both visionary and challenging, it presents technological progress not simply as a threat, but as a force capable of transforming and potentially enhancing human life.
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paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2000
388 pages
ISBN: 9780140282023
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First Published
1999
Language
eng
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