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“The greatest take-away for the future of humanity, and the future of intelligence.”

  • Steve Jurvetson,
    Managing Director of Future Ventures

“Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an updated, expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set the terms of debate. Grounded in decades of meticulous research, and written with impressive clarity across an immense canvas, it's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand our exponential times."

  • Mustafa Suleyman, CEO,
    Microsoft AI

About RAY KURZWEIL

Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions.

He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind, both New York Times bestsellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

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"Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence."

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“RAY KURZWEIL’S THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER IS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WHAT CHARLES DARWIN’S ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES WAS TO LIFE SCIENCE."
  • Martine Rothblatt, PhD, Creator of SiriusXM, United Therapeutics, electric helicopters and the Bina48 robot
“RAY EXPLORES MOUNTING EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE — RIGHT NOW — ON THE BRINK OF A NEW HUMAN CIVILIZATION."
  • Dean Kamen, Inventor, entrepreneur, youth educator, award-winning mechanical engineer, recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Technology, inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
“THIS BOOK WILL CHALLENGE EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, LIFE, AND DEATH. IT WILL LIGHT YOU UP WITH ANSWERS TO TODAY’S MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY.”
  • Tony Robbins,
    Global Entrepreneur, Investor, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author, Philanthropist, and the World’s #1 Life and Business Strategist
“IT IS ONLY 2023 AND ALREADY THE WORLD HE ENVISIONED YEARS AGO IS TAKING SHAPE. CURIOUS ABOUT THE FUTURE? READ THIS BOOK!”
  • Vint Cerf,
    A Father of the Internet and Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
“IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE—AND OUR SOCIETY—WILL BE IN 20 YEARS, READ THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER TODAY.”
  • Dean Ornish,
    MD, Founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; clinical professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco; author, Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases, The Spectrum and Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease
"A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions."
  • Yuval Noah Harari,
    New York Times     bestselling author of Sapiens
"An updated, expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set the terms of debate."
  • Mustafa Suleyman,
    CEO, Microsoft AI 
“More than just a book—it's a survival guide for the technological renaissance we're about to experience.”
  • Peter H. Diamandis,
    MD,         New York Times Bestselling author, Founder, XPRIZE, Singularity
“May be the single most important contribution to understanding the valuable roles of AI and nanotechnology.”
  • Natasha Vita-More,
    PhD, Author, Co-creator of the Transhumanist Movement
“Wow! Without question, this is Ray Kurzweil’s best book to date. The book is a towering accomplishment.”
  • Harry George,
    Cofounder of Interleaf, Inc., Cofounder and Managing Partner, Solstice Capitol
“One of the great American minds.”
  • Suzanne Somers,
    Actress, singer, comedienne, N    ew York Times bestselling author

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