Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020...
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence...
Startling in scope and bravado. Janet Maslin, The New York Times Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world. Los Angeles Times Elaborate, smart and persuasive. The Boston Globe A pleasure to read. The Wall Street Journal One ofCBS News s Best Fall Books of 2005AmongSt Louis Post-Dispatch s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005One of Amazon.com s Best Science Books of 2005 A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling...
Startling in scope and bravado. Janet Maslin, The New York Times Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world. Los Angele...
From the author of How to Create a Mind comes startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology occur practically every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Fantastic Voyage shows us how we can use these new technologies to live longer than previously imaginable. The authors take the reader on a journey to undreamed-of vitality with a comprehensive investigation into the cutting-edge science regarding diet, supplementation, genetics, detoxification, and the hormones involved...
From the author of How to Create a Mind comes startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology occur practical...
Reducing the level of fat in your diet to 10% can save your life, and this book gives you all the tools you need to do just that. Everything you need to know about is in this book: recipes, conversion charts, pantry staples, dining-out tips, progress tables, an exercise program, and detailed appendixes.
Reducing the level of fat in your diet to 10% can save your life, and this book gives you all the tools you need to do just that. Everything you need ...
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential--and often controversial--futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization--reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly...
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably t...