Beyond the Book: Background information when reading The Singularity Is Near

Name: The Singularity Is Near
Rating: 4.0 (3 reviews)
Author: Ray Kurzweil
ISBN: 9780670033843

The Singularity Is Near

When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

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The text of Vernor Vinge's 1993 speech .
The Turing Test apparently originates from Alan Turing's 1950 paper titled ' Computing machinery and intelligence'.
Ray Kurzweil's website.

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This "beyond the book article" relates to The Singularity Is Near. It originally ran in January 2006 and has been updated for the September 2006 paperback edition. Go to magazine.
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