奇点临近+黑客+大教堂与集市

by Ray Kurzweil

本书是一本有思维方法论启示的书；是一本站在历史的高度，正面思考科技力量的书；是一本充满想象与预言，但又不失科学论证的书。本书提供了一个崭新的视角：21世纪既是数百年以来科技、创意的顶点，又是对人类终极命运真挚的愿景。

1765 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 24, 2015

About the author

Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind, both New York Times best sellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. His forthcoming book, The Singularity Is Nearer, will be released June 25, 2024. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.