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Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: Our synthetic future

Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:11:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "The Age of Spiritual Machines" is a book extrapolating trends in information processing by Ray Kurzweil.

What can one say about Ray Kurzweil that hasn't been said before? He is a man who has taken on some of the most difficult tasks in...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: The Age of Materialist Assumptions about Consciousness

Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:21:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author will3 - Ray Kurzweil is described as the ‘ultimate thinking machine’ by Forbes magazine on the back of his book, ‘The Age of Spiritual Machines’. Ray, (and we’ll call him Ray) has invented and innovated several remarkable devices, such as the Kurzweil reading...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: The future is yet to come...

Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:08:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brianmayo - With the recent opening of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) having people wondering what the future, few rarely decide to actually take it seriously. But what many people know is that computers will be smarter and they will be totally independent in the...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: In 99 years I'll live inside my computer...

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:51:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - This is one of the books that really make you think. The author makes a convincing case for the major transformations to come regarding human existence itself over the next hundred years as a result of computing technology. Some of his predictions may...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: The Best Is Yet to Be

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:39:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Every fifty years emerges a voice worthy of being heard earnestly telling about the future with such ease and grace that it might be today or the day after. Kurzweil, whom I have observed at a distance for fifteen years, is such a voice, and his book is...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: Hello HAL

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:58:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mcalpine - Written and structured in a very convincing and easy-to-understand manner, this book will open your mind to possibilities and certainties of the advancement computer technology over the next 100 years. It might possibly just blow your mind; I know it...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: I wanna be a toaster when I grow up

Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:33:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bucquero - Ray Kurzweil has been amazingly accurate in past predictions, and if he is right this time, then humans are merely a transitory stage of development on the way to the real thing -- true thinking machines. Indeed, as far as Kurzweil is concerned, the...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: Move over, homo sap

Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:14:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tomgray - As a long-time science-fiction reader, I found The Age of Spiritual Machines enthralling. So that's where they get all those ideas, I thought, recognizing concept after concept from novels I've read over the past few years. (Kurzweil's book is...

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence: You Will Be Assimilated and You'll Probably Like It

Fri, 17 Sep 1999 01:32:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pshropshire - Twenty years ago, back in high school (Yes, the writer is old.) when we were reading the two great anti-utopian novels of the century, Brave New World and 1984, there was some discussion as to which place we would rather live. We sort of chose Brave New...