![]() ![]() ![]() The singularity itself is a term describing a singular point in human history, where the future of humanity will become unpredictable, because it’s changing so quickly. A lot of Ray‘s predictions from the past turned out to be correct (for example that computers would beat the world’s best chess players by the year 2000 – IBM’s Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997), so it’ll be exciting to see which of the ones from The Singularity Is Near are spot on. He’s also written seven books about these and other topics, many of which include predictions about the future. He’s preoccupied with topics like futurism, transhumanism (overcoming fundamental human limitations, like death) and of course, artificial intelligence. His inventions range from optical character recognition devices to scanners and print-to-speech reading machines for the blind. Ray Kurzweil is THE future guy at Google. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]()
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