How to Create a Mind
by Ray Kurzweil | 
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark | 
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
by Claude E. Shannon |
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli |
The Big Picture
by Sean Carroll | 
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
by Stephen Hawking | 
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins |
Something Deeply Hidden
by Sean Carroll | 
Bad Astronomy
by Philip Plait | 
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
by David Bohm |
Through Two Doors at Once
by Anil Ananthaswamy | 
Beyond Weird
by Philip Ball | 
Unweaving the Rainbow
by Richard Dawkins |
The Life of the Cosmos
by Lee Smolin | 
Breaking Open the Head
by Daniel Pinchbeck | 
Critical Path
by R. Buckminster Fuller | 
The Fabric of Reality
by David Deutsch | 
Lost in Math
by Sabine Hossenfelder | 
Synergetics
by R. Buckminster Fuller |
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 the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will 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.