About this title: The "ultimate thinking machine" ("Forbes")--whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative, and closer to fruition than one might think--takes a serious and surprising look at the future that reads like great science fiction and offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century. Illustrations & diagrams. (Technology)
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marked by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1/1/2000
ISBN-13:9780140282023ISBN:0140282025
Description: Like New. Paperback. Gift Inscription on inside cover. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. This copy is nearly flawless! Cover has barely noticeable shelf wear. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000-01-01
ISBN-13:9780140282023ISBN:0140282025
Description: Very Good. Very Good-Condition. Binding tight, pages mostly clean: previous owner name on first page. Light edge-wear to covers. Rubbing at center of front hinge. Nice copy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140282023ISBN:0140282025
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xii, 388 pp. Seventh printing. The book is very slightly cocked. The binding is tight and the text is clean. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140282023ISBN:0140282025
Description: Fine with no DJ. 0140282025. Remainder mark.; A great looking book. No names, no marks, no tears.; 388 pages; The national bestseller by the "ultimate thinking machine" (Forbes) whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative--and closer to fruition than you think. 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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000-01-01
ISBN-13:9780140282023ISBN:0140282025
Description: New in None as issued jacket. New, unread copy with light shelf wear. Bottom corner of front cover is bent. We ship 6 days a week, generally within 24 hours; single CDs and DVDs upgraded to 1st class! read more
Edition: Penguin Books 2000 Publishing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books/Published by the Penguin Group, New York, Lodon, et al.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140282023ISBN:0140282025
Description: Rose Russo and Robert Brun. Like New. Academic, Scholarly. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 388 pp. Reviews: How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of ... read more
Description: Fine. Excellent condition. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. The pages are tanning, otherwise very nice and clean. A small crease on bottom right of the corner. Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Collectible 1st pbk Edition, 1st printing with 10 full numberline. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very slightly tanned, otherwise nice and clean. Minor shelfwear/small crease on cover. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
"This book kind of freaked me out and blew my mind at the same time. It's probably one of the most fascinating books about technology that I've ever read. Scary, urgent, uplifting, and unique."
"Oh boy! The future is going to be great! It's going to be shiny, clean and everyone's going to be living in harmony and we're all going to have robotic implants that will make everything all great and wonderful and YAY!"
"This is important stuff. Kurzweil is unsettling. Though his writing is convoluted and unfocused, he says important things. I don't think any of what he says is far-fetched or delirious. I read "The Age of Spirituals..." back in 2000, now I have "Singularity" in hand. I don't expect so much insight from it, instead a refreshing new dive into Kurzeil's amazing world."
"Very fun to read, kinda technical at times but overall an easy read. The book serves as an intimation of future events, not as a prediction. And in that sense I very much enjoyed it. That being said, there were whole sections I skimmed over, and they were the area's Ray used his "artistic license" to hold a conversation with an imaginary friends who travels through time... he is not a fiction writer... that's all I'll say. The idea's presented in the book follow a set of laws (law of accelerating returns, Moore's law etc.) which create a kind of boundary wall of possibilities for the future. It's fun and thought provoking to dive into these idea's, for example, what happens when nano-machines become capable of self-replicating? There are a lot of implications to these relatively simple events that fail to brought into the discussion, a lot of which can be dangerous to the status quo, (machine rights) some just plain deadly (such as the self replicating nano-machine) and other like what happens when a neural network such as we have today is combined with quantum computing. All this is fun to think about but like all 'futurists' (and I don't mean to demean the profession) there is little worth in putting a date beside your predictions. Aren't the predictions enough? Inevitably they always stray into Flying Car territory. So often do the theories get away from the practical implications required to bring them to life. We can make flying cars, sure, it's not really difficult, its just impractical."
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