The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. The bestselling author of The Age of Spiritual Machines presents the next stage of his compelling view of the future: the merging of humans and machines. His books include The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Age of Intelligent Machines. Recipient of the MIT-Lemelson Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), and inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame, he received the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Ray Kurzweil is a prize-winning author and scientist. When $1,000 will get you a computer that’s smarter than all of humanity combined How you’ll be able to download knowledge into your brain by 2030, just like Neo did in The Matrix Why your body will at some point be more technology than biology, and how that’ll give you X-Men style abilities The reason organ donations will be unnecessary soon What will enable gene therapy to become common practice Why your smartphone might soon be smarter than you How DNA-powered computers will give us 1000x increases in processing power
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