About This Book
Within your lifetime, human intelligence may expand a millionfold—and Ray Kurzweil has the receipts to back that up.
The noted inventor and futurist returns with The Singularity Is Nearer, a follow-up to his landmark 2005 work The Singularity Is Near, to assess what exponential technology has delivered and where it leads next. Drawing on six decades of AI research, Kurzweil revisits his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human-level intelligence by 2029 and examines what comes after—nanobots rebuilding matter atom by atom, brain-cloud interfaces that reinvent cognition, radical life extension and the ethical complexities of technologies that could one day virtually revive the dead.
For anyone trying to understand what artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology actually mean for work, health and human identity, The Singularity Is Nearer is grounded futurism at its most ambitious—serious enough to reckon with the dangers, optimistic enough to argue the transformation is worth it.