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January 02, 2006

Singularly frightening future?

Will super-intelligent computers someday inherit the Earth?

This portentous question is a staple of science-fiction thrillers such as "The Matrix" and "The Terminator" movies as well as more thoughtful cinematic treatments such as Steven Spielberg's haunting film "A.I."

It is also the topic of two best-selling nonfiction books by futurist Ray Kurzweil: "The Age of Intelligent Machines" and "The Age of Spiritual Machines." With his new book, "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology," Kurzweil links a projected ascendance of artificial intelligence to the future of the evolutionary process itself. The result is both frightening and enlightening.

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Posted by thinkingmachine at January 2, 2006 09:59 AM

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