Ray Kurzweil The Singularity is Near-奇点临近

书名：The Singularity is Near-奇点临近

作者：Ray Kurzweil

作者简介：雷·库兹韦尔：是领先的发明家、思想家、预言学家，他被《华尔街日报》誉为“永不满足的天才”，被《Inc.》杂志称为“托马斯·爱迪生的法定继承人”。拥有13项荣誉博士头衔，曾经获得3位总统嘉奖。比尔·盖茨称他是“预测人工智能未来专业的人”。克林顿总统授予他国家技术奖章。

英文简介：The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, he envisions an event—the “singularity”—in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines. 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.