The Singularity Is Nearer

Resumen del libro

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to comeSince it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major films (Her, Lucy, Ex Machina), and thousands of articles. During the succeeding decade many of Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have been borne out, and their viability has become familiar to the public through such now commonplace concepts as AI, intelligent machines, and bioengineering.In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120 reinventing intelligence by expanding biological capacity with nonbiological intelligence in the cloud how life is improving with declines in areas such as poverty and violence and the growth of technologies such as renewable energy and 3D printing, which can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact unemployment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which will reanimate people who have passed away through a combination of data and DNA.

Biografía del autor

Raymond Kurzweil es uno de los principales inventores y tecnólogos del mundo. Su visión futurista sobre el crecimiento exponencial de la tecnología ha sido avalada por la materialización de sus predicciones a lo largo de los últimos treinta y cinco años, lo que lo ha convertido en el pensador de la inteligencia artificial más influyente e inspirador en el mundo. La revista Forbes lo definió como la máquina pensante definitiva , y la PBS lo seleccionó como uno de los dieciséis revolucionarios que hicieron América . <br> Escritor bestseller de The New York Times, músico ganador de un Premio Grammy y empresario, preside la compañía informática Kurzweil Technologies, que se dedica a elaborar dispositivos electrónicos de conversación máquina-humano. Desde 2012 es director de Ingeniería en Google, y es el fundador de la Universidad de la Singularidad de Silicon Valley, en colaboración con Google y la NASA.<br> Especializado en Ciencias de la Computación, obtuvo su licenciatura en el MIT, y ha sido galardonado con la Medalla Nacional de Tecnología. Es autor, entre otros, de los libros La era de las máquinas espirituales (Planeta, 1999), La Singularidad está cerca (Lola Books, 2021) y Cómo crear una mente (Lola Books, 2023).