The Singularity Is Near

When Humans Transcend Biology
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an elaborate, smart, and persuasive (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development.

Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.Los Angeles Times
Startling in scope and bravado.Janet Maslin, The New York Times
An important book.The Philadelphia Inquirer

At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity.

While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the thr