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The Age of Spiritual Machines:
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil - Narrator Alan Sklar
Amid the recent spate of books anticipating our possible technological futures, Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines stands out both for its enthusiasm and for its odd and unsettling vision of the future. If Kurzweil is right, when we finally take to the stars, we will more closely resemble the Borg Collective than the United Federation of Planets ? and we will have embraced this fate of “assimilation” simply in the course of trying to keep up with our own technology.
Where Michio Kaku’s Visions predicts fairly extensive human augmentation through medical technologies, biotechnologies, and the still nascent nanotechnologies, Kurzweil foresees a total, final merging of human and machine. This merger, according to Kurzweil, will take place at the intersection of two inexorable evolutionary trends: increased human augmentation and increasingly intelligent computers. Eventually, there will be no discernible difference between our own downloaded, digital selves and our intelligent, emotional, artistic, and even spiritual computers.