https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/brucecounty/rss/search?query=Kurzweil%2C%20Ray&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeSun, 08 Mar 2026 08:17:07 GMThttps://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4709193https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4709193Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4709193192BKWhen We Merge With Alenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399562761/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.

“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio

“Kurzweil’s vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and calmly reasoned, and his book should nicely smooth the path for the earth’s robot overlords, who, it turns out, will be us.”—The New York Times
 
In How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.
 
Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems. He also thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating.
 
Drawing on years of advanced research and cutting-edge inventions in artificial intelligence, How to Create a Mind is an incredible synthesis of neuroscience and technology and provides a road map for the future of human progress.]]>https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C874287https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C874287Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/874287980EBOOKThe Secret of Human Thought Revealedenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101601105/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development.
“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times
“Startling in scope and bravado.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“An important book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity.
While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, The Singularity Is Near presents a radical and optimistic view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.]]>https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C204710https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C204710Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/204710980EBOOKWhen Humans Transcend Biologyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101218884/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).

“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of the computer and the species that invented it grow ever closer.”—BILL GATES
 
Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil, the “restless genius” (The Wall Street Journal), “ultimate thinking machine” (Forbes), and inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era. In his inspired hands, life in the new millennium no longer seems daunting. Instead, it promises to be an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live.
 
More than just a list of predictions, Kurzweil’s prophetic blueprint for the future guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in:
• Computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain (with human-level capabilities not far behind)
• Relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers
• Information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways
 
Eventually, the distinction between humans and computers will have become sufficiently blurred that when the machines claim to be conscious, we will believe them.]]>https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C254220https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C254220Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMThttps://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/254220980EBOOKWhen Computers Exceed Human Intelligenceenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101077887/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4326635https://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4326635Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://brucecounty.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4326635192BOOK_CDHow New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of your Life & Those You Loveenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508287742/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=