The Singularity Is Near
Kurzweil's futurist manifesto predicts that exponential technological growth will lead to the Singularity—a point where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Through analysis of trends in computing, biology, and nanotechnology, it explores transhumanism, immortality, and the merger of human and machine. The work has profoundly influenced technological utopianism.
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