The Singularity is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence -- BILL GATES
A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions -- YUVAL NOAH HARARI
Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an 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 of Microsoft AI and author of The Coming Wave
Ray Kurzweil is the greatest oracle of our digital age. The Singularity Is Nearer is more than just a book—it's a survival guide for the technological renaissance we're about to experience. Ray’s accurate projections of what is likely to happen and when, makes the difference between surfing atop the tsunami of change, versus being crushed by it -- Peter H. Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE
Kurzweil makes a compelling case . . . It is only 2023 and already the world he envisioned years ago is taking shape. Curious about the Future? Read this book -- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
When it comes to artificial intelligence, no one has more experience than Ray Kurzweil * BBC Focus *
What Kurzweil describes in his book isn't just the dawn of a beautiful new age, but the unknowable night at the ending of one * Mail on Sunday *
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Nearer is to information technology what Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was to life science – a cogent, fact-based, clear-eyed, multi-disciplinary exposition of a fundamental truth about the world. There can be no more salient guide to the next two decades of life -- Martine Rothblatt, founder of United Therapeutics
Ray Kurzweil’s Moore’s Law abstraction is the most important thing ever graphed. Its continuity – over his lifetime of writing – is the greatest take-away for the future of humanity, and the future of intelligence -- Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Future Ventures
My view of the future has been forever impacted by Ray Kurzweil. Twenty-four years ago, he predicted AI would reach human-level intelligence by 2029. His vision seemed like a dream and yet here we are, right on track. 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, author of Awaken the Giant Within
Ray explores mounting evidence that we are – right now – on the brink of a new human civilization. We’ll experience life in a whole new way. Everyone seriously concerned about the future should read this book -- Dean Kamen, recipient of the US National Medal of Technology