The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (First Edition)
Language: English
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 2005
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (First Edition)
- Author
- Ray Kurzweil (author)
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670033847
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033843
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 975 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.13 centimeters width by 24.18 centimeters height by 5.31 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: The Singularity is Near
- Seller catalogs
- Computers/Internet, Mathematics, Science, & Technology
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event—a 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 Near is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005.
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About the Author
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 The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Age of Intelligent Machines.
Visit Ray Kurzweil on the web:
http://www.kurzweiltech.com
http://www.kurzweilai.net/
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