For decades, Ray Kurzweil has stood as one of the most recognizable and controversial figures in futurism. An inventor, a recipient of the National Medal of Technology, and currently a principal researcher at Google, Kurzweil is best known for his theory of the Singularity—a point in time when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization. His 2005 bestseller, The Singularity Is Near , laid out a timeline suggesting this event would occur around 2045.
: He maintains that by 2045, we will merge our biological intelligence with the non-biological intelligence we’ve created, expanding our consciousness a millionfold. Nanotechnology in the Brain ray kurzweil the singularity is nearer pdf