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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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I love Kurzweil, love most of this book, and would read anything he wrote. However, if you have time for only one Kurzweil book, I would strongly recommend How to Create a Mind over this book. Kurzweil is one of my favorite writers because his predictions are a result of his deep understanding of both the current state of technology and the timing of various technological advances. This is evident in How to Create a Mind. In this book however, Kurzweil's desire to live forever is clearly clouding his usually superior prediction skills. Dying sucks. I get it. Life saving technological advances are around the corner and knowing it will not come in time to save his life makes it all the harder to get old. His motivation to be overly optimistic about medical advances is very clear throughout most of this book. I am not saying the advances of which he speaks will not happen. Indeed, I feel very confident they will, just not in the timeframe he suggested.
If you take his extended life time with a grain of salt, then this book deserves 5 stars.
If you take his extended life time with a grain of salt, then this book deserves 5 stars.
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Feb 20, 2017 06:11PM
Once again you wrote what I thought. Including the first line.
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Gary wrote: "Once again you wrote what I thought. Including the first line."http://giphy.com/gifs/wonder-vWTWt3Cq...
I feel in love with Kurzweil from that book even though I didn't love that book. That led me to his 'mind' book which just blew me away. Kurzweil is often mocked by others but never by me.
Gary wrote: "I feel in love with Kurzweil from that book even though I didn't love that book. That led me to his 'mind' book which just blew me away. Kurzweil is often mocked by others but never by me."People who mock him are usually anti-tech people who are afraid of the inevitable.
