The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human IntelligenceThe Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a framework for envisioning the 21st century in which one advance or invention leads inexorably to another. After establishing that technology is growing exponentially, Kurzweil forecasts that computers will exceed the memory capacity and computing speed of the human brain by 2020, with the other attributes of human intelligence not far behind. By that time paraplegics will be able to walk by using a combination of nerve stimulation and robotic devices. |
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User Review - Razinha - LibraryThingThis one was a little flat for me, and not just because of the title. I can't fathom why he would equate "spiritual" and "intelligence" - of course, both are evolutionary products, but they are not ... Read full review
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Ray Kurzweil gives a very positive and inspiring view of the possibilities of human achievement in the near and longer term future. The ideas if realized will be the best things to advance the human race and create progress and wealth.
Contents
THE LAW OF TIME AND CHAOS | 9 |
THE INTELLIGENCE OF EVOLUTION | 40 |
OF MIND AND MACHINES | 51 |
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| Title | The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence A Penguin Book. Science/Technology A Penguin book |
| Author | Ray Kurzweil |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Viking, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0670882178, 9780670882175 |
| Length | 388 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics |
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