The Age of Spiritual Machines

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 computers will exceed us in memory capacity and computational ability by 2020 when they'll have human-level capabilities not far behind. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through technological advances that inexorably result in relationships with automated personalities who'll be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.