The Age of Spiritual Machines, (Paperback)

from Move_and_Merge

In the first half of the book, Kurzweil constructs a sturdy foundation for the material and puts forth a number of ideas I can agree with (e.g., his defense of Eric Drexler's views on molecular tec...

from shawnd

This book is an enjoyable treatise on how the world might evolve over the next century as computing power increases at an accelerating rate. It is perhaps a more technical and constructed version o...

from Razinha

This one was a little flat for me, and not just because of the title. I can't fathom why he would equate "spiritual" and "intelligence" - of course, both are evolutionary products, but they are not...

from prize

I learned a lot from this book; but it still creeped me out. I read it quite a few years ago; but I remember that it wasn't very technical.

from dvf1976

Ugh. This book is like a techno-optimist's response to the Unabomber's manifesto. My problem is that the future espoused by Kurzweil is only slightly more appealing than the Unabomber's. Specifical...