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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: What’s in it for me? Prepare for a world run by artificial intelligence.
Chapter 2: Time slowed down when the universe first developed but sped up as life-forms evolved.
Chapter 3: Technology and life-forms evolve exponentially thanks to a shared ability.
Chapter 4: Time and order are inversely proportional, producing incredible results.
Chapter 5: Human evolution is limited but machine intelligence can transcend its roadblocks.
Chapter 6: By 2029, computers will be capable of much more, transforming basic spheres of life.
Chapter 7: By the year 2099, humans and computers will begin to merge.
Description
The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) is your guide to the future. These blinks explain the new age of machines and what robotic intelligence will mean for life as we know it.
Who Should Listen
Anyone freaking out about artificial intelligence
Computer and social scientists
Futurists and inventors
About the Authors
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, computer scientist and futurist. He’s the inventor of a reading machine for blind people, speech-recognition technology and multiple music synthesizers. Among other titles, he’s the author of The Singularity is Near, How to Create a Mind, and The Age of Intelligent Machines.