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For over three years, Ray Kurzweil hasbeen among the respected and sexy promoters of the role of engineering within our potential. In his classic Age Spiritual Machines, he contended that computers could soon rival the entire selection of human intellect at its best. Today he investigates the next phase in this inexorable evolutionary method: the partnership of human and machine, where the knowledge and skills embedded within our minds is likely to be combined with significantly higher volume, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our masterpieces.