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The Singularity Is Nearer

The Singularity Is Nearer( )
Author: Kurzweil, Ray
ISBN:978-0-593-48941-3
Publication Date:Feb 2022
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Viking Adult
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $27.99
Book Description:

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near (Duckworth) and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, and major films (Her, Lucy, Ex Machina). During the succeeding decade many of his predictions about tech advancements have been borne out. In this entirely new book Kurzweil takes a fresh perspective on advances in the singularity - assessing many of his predictions and...
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Pages:448
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 22.8 cm
Author Biography
Kurzweil, Ray (Author)
Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.

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