The Age of Spiritual Machines: How We Will Live, Work, and Think in the New Age of Intelligent Machines
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Step into the world of Ray Kurzweil, the “restless genius” (Wall Street Journal) and “ultimate thinking machine” (Forbes), whose predictions for an age in which man and machine are interchangeable are startling, provocative–and closer to realization than you think., Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and techn….Read More
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