About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Marvin Minsky, Alvin Toffler, Kevin Warwick, Vernor Vinge, Ray Kurzweil, Bruce Sterling, Eliezer Yudkowsky, FM-2030, Greg Bear, K. Eric Drexler, Robert Freitas, David Brin, Steve Mann, Hugo de Garis, Max Tegmark, Keith Henson, Aubrey de Grey, Peter Thiel, Cory Doctorow, Donna Haraway, Robert Ettinger, Gregory Stock, Martine Rothblatt, W. Daniel Hillis, Jamais Cascio, Charles Stross, Natasha Vita-More, David Pearce, Charles Platt, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Damien Broderick, Stephen Euin Cobb, Glenn Reynolds, Nick Bostrom, Mixter, Bruce Cordell, Russell Blackford, Ben Goertzel, Sebastian Thrun, William Sims Bainbridge, James Hughes, George Dvorsky, John Smart, Alex Lightman, Patri Friedman, David Gobel, Joel Garreau, Marshall Brain, Ronald Bailey, Hans Moravec, Giulio Prisco, Julian Savulescu, Stelarc, Peter Norvig, Lee Daniel Crocker, Max More, Andy Miah, Steve Jurvetson, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Alexander Chislenko, Mark Alan Walker, David Orban, Danila Medvedev, Anders Sandberg, Antonei Csoka, Joseph Fletcher, Khannea Suntzu, Stuart Copeland, Ramez Naam, Riccardo Campa. Excerpt: Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (pronounced; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Ray Kurzweil grew up in the New York City borough of Queens. He was born to secular Jewish parents who had escaped Austria just before the onset of World War II, and he was exposed via Unitarian Universalism to a diversity of religious faiths during his upbringing. His father was a musician and composer and his mother was a visual artist....
