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Review of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Title: Review of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Category: Science & Technology
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Review of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
In the first chapter of his book The Age of Spiritual Machines, author Ray Kurzweil gives a very brief history of the Universe, which serves as a preface for his subsequent theories. In this history, Kurzweil chronicles the rapid expansion of time between salient events in the history of the Universe, describing time, in his own words, as geometrically slowing (pg. 10). He then jumps headfirst into the history of evolution, and shortly thereafter of technology, …showed first 75 words of 646 total…
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It is not a difficult comparison which leads Kurzweil to postulate that some day computers, the intelligence that man created, will some day become more intelligent than man himself. It is also not difficult to foresee the day when computers more intelligent than man will begin to create intelligence more intelligent than they—thus Kurzweil brings to a close his second chapter, setting nicely the stage for the rest of the book.
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