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

Beyond the Book

This article relates to The Singularity Is Near

Background links

• 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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