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The national best-seller from the "ultimate thinking machine" (Forbes) whose predictions for future years are surprising, provocative--and nearer to fruition than you believe. Ray Kurzweil may be the creator of the very persuasive and progressive technology of our time, a global expert on artificial intelligence, and among our best living visionaries. Today he provides a framework for envisioning the twenty first century--an era where the relationship of individual awareness and synthetic intellect eventually changes and enhances just how we live. Kurzweilis prophetic formula for future years requires us through the improvements that inexorably lead to pcs exceeding the storage capacity and computational capability of the human mind by the entire year 2020 (with human-level abilities not far behind); in interactions with automated personalities who'll be our teachers, friends, and enthusiasts; and in info given directly into our minds along immediate sensory paths.