The Singularity is Near By Ray Kurzweil
 

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The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, he envisions an event the singularity in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines. The Singularity Is Nearportrays what life will be like after this eventa human-machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed, world hunger will be solved, and our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death. We will be able to create virtually any physical product just from information, resulting in radical wealth creation. In addition to outlining these fantastic changes, Kurzweil also considers their social and philosophical ramifications. With its radical but optimistic view of the course of human development, The Singularity Is Nearis certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005.



The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
By Ray Kurzweil
Published by Viking, 2005
ISBN 0670033847, 9780670033843
652 pages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PWXrnsSrf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC5EHi7Mlc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDqaMFHGEZ8 surviving the singularity.

Re: The Singularity is Near By Ray Kurzweil
 

Reminds me somewhat of the end of Alex Jones EndGame, blueprint for global enslavement. Google vid for anyone who hasnt seen it

Re: The Singularity is Near By Ray Kurzweil
 

watched like 18 minutes of the lecture, then quit. I found him to be robotic in his nature... I didnt enjoy it.