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by kurt_h  - Top 500, Aug 28 '02
Pros: Some interesting extrapolation on computing trends
Cons: This man should not be trying to invent scientific laws on his lonesome!
"The Age of Spiritual Machines" is a book extrapolating trends in information processing by Ray Kurzweil.
What can one say about Ray Kurzweil that hasn't been said before? He is a man who has taken on some of the most difficult tasks in...
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by dtobias - Top 1000, Aug 28 '00
Pros: Really makes you think about the possibilities for the future.
Cons: I'm not sure all of his premises are true (though he makes a good case for them).
This is one of the books that really make you think. The author makes a convincing case for the major transformations to come regarding human existence itself over the next hundred years as a result of computing technology. Some of his predictions may...
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by will3 , Aug 26 '02
Pros: Well written, provocative, good quotes
Cons: Somewhat arrogant, intricate thinking often founded on unfounded premises, justifying arguments with false humanism
Ray Kurzweil is described as the ‘ultimate thinking machine’ by Forbes magazine on the back of his book, ‘The Age of Spiritual Machines’. Ray, (and we’ll call him Ray) has invented and innovated several remarkable devices, such as the Kurzweil reading...
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by tomgray , Oct 01 '99
Pros: Fascinating ideas--the author has fun and you will, too.
Cons: Perhaps a bit overly self-promotional.
As a long-time science-fiction reader, I found The Age of Spiritual Machines enthralling. So that's where they get all those ideas, I thought, recognizing concept after concept from novels I've read over the past few years. (Kurzweil's book is...
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by wickengel , Jun 15 '00
Pros: visionary technophilic sound prohpetic
Cons: that some might not enjoy the challenge
Every fifty years emerges a voice worthy of being heard earnestly telling about the future with such ease and grace that it might be today or the day after. Kurzweil, whom I have observed at a distance for fifteen years, is such a voice, and his book is...
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by pshropshire , Sep 16 '99
Pros: Wondrously ambitious. Imaginative, even creative at times.
Cons: Fictional narratives don't always work.
Twenty years ago, back in high school (Yes, the writer is old.) when we were reading the two great anti-utopian novels of the century, Brave New World and 1984, there was some discussion as to which place we would rather live. We sort of chose Brave New...
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by brianmayo , Jul 19 '01
Pros: A very stunning look into the future that kept me reading.
Cons: A bit scary and awkward at first.
With the recent opening of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) having people wondering what the future, few rarely decide to actually take it seriously. But what many people know is that computers will be smarter and they will be totally independent in the...
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by mcalpine , Apr 14 '00
Pros: Enlightening, well-written
Cons: Distracting cover?
Written and structured in a very convincing and easy-to-understand manner, this book will open your mind to possibilities and certainties of the advancement computer technology over the next 100 years. It might possibly just blow your mind; I know it...
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by bucquero , Dec 19 '99
Pros: An intriguing and likely view of the future
Cons: I am not fond of his woman of the future, though the device is effective
Ray Kurzweil has been amazingly accurate in past predictions, and if he is right this time, then humans are merely a transitory stage of development on the way to the real thing -- true thinking machines. Indeed, as far as Kurzweil is concerned, the...
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