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·Book Review: A New Kind of Science

·Nanoethics and Human Enhancement

·Cyborg Liberation Front Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights

·The End Of Time: A Talk With Julian Barbour

·Evolution and the Internet: Toward A Networked Humanity?

·Exploring the 'Singularity'

·Technotopia and the Death of Nature

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence

·Nanoethics and Technological Revolutions: A Precis.

·Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards

·When Machines Outsmart Humans

·The Transhumanist FAQ

·How Long Before Superintelligence?

·Biowar for Dummies

·Kurzweil's Law

·Immaterial Girl Speaking of the Future with Ramona

·Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil, Eric Drexler, and Robert Bradbury

·The 10,000-Year Library

·Singularities and Nightmares

·Beyond Computation: A Talk with Rodney Brooks

·The New Humanist

·Cultural Dominants and Differential MNT Uptake

·Nanofactories, Gang Wars, and "Feelies"

·Excerpts from The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies

·Tearing Toward the Spike

· Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness

·How will computation and communication change our everyday lives, again?

·From The Enlightenment to N-Lightenment

·The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance

·As We May Think

·The Pace and Proliferation of Biological Technologies

·Open-Source Biology And Its Impact on Industry

·Openness and the Metaverse Singularity

·Revolution in a Box An Interview with the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

·Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness

·On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

·A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition

·Natural Born Cyborgs

·EGOGRAM 2007

·Arthur C. Clarke Offers His Vision of the Future

·BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists

·Decoupling Art and Affluence

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: Brother Giorgio's Kangaroo

·Molecular Manufacturing and 21st Century Policing

·Safer Molecular Manufacturing through Nanoblocks

·Food For Thought

·The Future

·Global Cyberspace and Personal Memespace

·How different could life have been?

·Discovery Today Discussion of Machine Consciousness

·Answering Fermi's Paradox

·Building Gods or Building Our Potential Exterminators?

·Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future

·Live Moderated Chat: Are We Spiritual Machines?

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Chapter 4: Kurzweil’s Impoverished Spirituality

·Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds

·What kind of system of 'coding' of semantic information does the brain use?

·The Computational Perspective

·We Earth Neurons

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: Can Machines Think?

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Chapter 3: Organism and Machine The Flawed Analogy

·Kurzweil vs. Dertouzos

·Finishing the Unfinished Revolution

·The hows and whys of what led to us

·Thought Experiments: When the Singularity Is More than a Literary Device An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil

·Diary of an Immortal Man

·FULL LENGTH BOOK: The Engines of Creation

·Engines of Creation 2.0: Molecular Engineering: An Approach to the Development of General Capabilities for Molecular Manipulation

·Engines of Creation 2.0: Advice To Aspiring Nanotechnologists

·Engines of Creation 2.0: Letter From Author

·Drexler Counters

·Toward closure: Open letter to Prof. Smalley

·An Open Letter to Richard Smalley

·The Future of Nanotechnology: Molecular Manufacturing

·Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil, Eric Drexler, and Robert Bradbury

·Nanotechnology: Six Lessons from Sept. 11

·Techno-Utopia and Human Values

·Some Challenges And Grand Challenges For Computational Intelligence

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers

·There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

·Review: Vernor Vinge's 'Fast Times'

·Robot: Child of God

·Connectivity: What it is and why it is so important

·Rethinking Operating Systems

·Lifeboat Foundation Nanoshield

·Economic Impact of the Personal Nanofactory

·What Price Freedom?

·Molecular Manufacturing: Too Dangerous to Allow?

·Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Nanosurgery

·Interview with Robert A. Freitas Jr. Part 2

·Interview with Robert A. Freitas Jr. Part 1

·How To Make a Nanodiamond A Simple Tool for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis, and its Method of Manufacture

·Nanomedicine

·Death is an Outrage

·The Vasculoid Personal Appliance

·Tangible Nanomoney

·Respirocytes

·Clottocytes: Artificial Mechanical Platelets

·Microbivores: Artificial Mechanical Phagocytes

·Robots in the bloodstream: the promise of nanomedicine

·Say Ah

·The Gray Goo Problem

·Intelligence, Computer and Human: A Discussion with Howard Gardner

·Who Owns Intelligence?

·It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind

·The Physical Constants as Biosignature An anthropic retrodiction of the Selfish Biocosm Hypothesis

·Biocosm, The New Scientific Theory of Evolution Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe

·Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life is the Architect of the Universe

·Why is beauty making a comeback now?

·Not Your Father's Internet

· Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness

·Why is religion so important to most Americans and so trivial to most intellectuals?

·Streams

·Engine on a Chip The Dream of the Personal Turbine

·FULL LENGTH BOOK: When Machines Start To Think

·Personal Fabrication

·Seeing Through the Window

·Quantum Computing with Molecules

·Smart Heuristics

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Introduction: Are We Spiritual Machines? The Beginning of a Debate

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Technology of Liberation

·Stop everything...IT'S TECHNO-HORROR!

·The Twenty Laws of the Telecosm

·2050 Global Normative Scenarios

·Millennium 3000 Scenarios

·AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds

·Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time

·I, Nanobot

·2050 Global Normative Scenarios

·Millennium 3000 Scenarios

·Press ignores bias in study of multivitamins and prostate cancer

·Ray Kurzweil's Plan for Cheating Death

·External Counterpulsation -- A New Paradigm for Treating Heart Disease

·Predictive Human Genomics Is Here

·Why Cryosuspension Makes Sense

·The Transhuman Singularity

·The Inflationary Universe

·The Age of Virtuous Machines

·Kinds of Minds

·Is AI Near a Takeoff Point?

·Runaway Artificial Intelligence?

·What I want to be when I grow up, is a cloud

·Utility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of

·Ethics for Machines

·Consciousness Connects Our Brains to the Fundamental Level of the Universe

·How To Live In A Simulation

·If Uploads Come First

·Is A Singularity Just Around The Corner?

·How Does the Brain Generate Computation?

·In Memoriam: Push Singh (1972-2006)

·Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

·Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior or, The Songs of Eden

·Bioterrorism and SARS

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test

·Forecasts and Alternative Futures

·Rethinking Science and Culture: P.R. Sarkar's Reconstruction of Science and Society

·The Rights of Your Robots: Exclusion and Inclusion in History and Future

·The Rights of Robots: Technology, Culture and Law in the 21st Century

·Interview: How much do we need to know?

·Transcending Moore's Law with Molecular Electronics and Nanotechnology

·The Unabomber's Manifesto

·The New Luddite Challenge

·Parallel universes, the Matrix, and superintelligence

·Why I Think I Will Win

·A Wager on the Turing Test: The Rules

·What must a physical system be to be able to act on its own behalf?

·Prolegomenon to a General Biology

·Can a Machine Think?

·We Are the Web

·Identifying Terrorists Before They Strike

·How to stop commercial air hijackings without inconveniencing air travelers

·Synthespianism

·What Shape are a German Shepherd's Ears?

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·ESSAY COLLECTION: The Ray Kurzweil Reader

·FULL LENGTH BOOK: Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong AI

·EXCERPTS FROM BOOK: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

·FULL LENGTH BOOK: The 10% Solution For A Healthy Life: How to Reduce Fat in Your Diet and Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease and Cancer

·ESSAY COLLECTION: The Futurecast

·FULL LENGTH BOOK: The Age of Intelligent Machines

·Press ignores bias in study of multivitamins and prostate cancer

·I'm Confident About Energy, the Environment, Longevity, and Wealth; I'm Optimistic (But Not Necessarily Confident) Of the Avoidance Of Existential Downsides; And I'm Hopeful (But Not Necessarily Optimistic) About a Repeat Of 9-11 (Or Worse)

·Foreword to The Intelligent Universe

· Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness

·Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century

·Response to 'The Singularity Is Always Near'

·Nanotechnology Dangers and Defenses

·Our Bodies, Our Technologies Ray Kurzweil's Cambridge Forum Lecture (Abridged)

·Reprogramming your Biochemistry for Immortality An Interview with Ray Kurzweil by David Jay Brown

·Sander Olson Interviews Ray Kurzweil

·Reinventing Humanity The Future of Human-Machine Intelligence

·Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil

·Ray Kurzweil's Dangerous Idea The near-term inevitability of radical life extension and expansion

·Online Chat with Ray Kurzweil and European Schoolnet

·What the Future Will Bring

·Lunch with Mikhail Gorbachev

·Acceptance Remarks For American Foundation for the Blind Migel Award

·Statement for Extropy Institute Vital Progress Summit

·Kurzweil’s Law (aka “the law of accelerating returns”)

·A Dialogue on Reincarnation

·The Drexler-Smalley Debate on Molecular Assembly

·Foreword to Virtual Humans

·The technology of universal intelligence

·The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines

·Essay for E-School News

·Exponential Growth an Illusion?: Response to Ilkka Tuomi

·Remarks about Tod Machover In Presenting the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music

·The Ray Kurzweil Reader

·The Power of an Idea

·Foreword to Electronic Reporting in the Digital Medical Enterprise

·The Matrix Loses Its Way: Reflections on 'Matrix' and 'Matrix Reloaded'

·Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change

·Testimony of Ray Kurzweil on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology

·The Future of Life

·THE HUMAN MACHINE MERGER: ARE WE HEADED FOR THE MATRIX?

·Human Body Version 2.0

·Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2002

·Kurzweil responds to Edge challenge, advises Bush

·Human Cloning is the Least Interesting Application of Cloning Technology

·The Intelligent Universe

·Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil, Eric Drexler, and Robert Bradbury

·The Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension

·Deep Fritz Draws: Are Humans Getting Smarter, or Are Computers Getting Stupider?

·A myopic perspective on AI

·Reflections on S1m0ne

·Live Moderated Chat: Are We Spiritual Machines?

·Kenneth Jernigan’s Prophetic Vision: Address to National Federation of the Blind Convention Banquet

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Singularity Chat with Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil

·Technology in the 21st Century: an Imminent Intimate Merger

·Reflections on Stephen Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science'

·How Can We Possibly Tell If It's Conscious?

·Response to Mitchell Kapor's "Why I Think I Will Win"

·A Wager on the Turing Test: Why I Think I Will Win

·A Wager on the Turing Test: The Rules

·After the Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil

·Accelerating Intelligence: Where Will Technology Lead Us?

·We Are Becoming Cyborgs

·Max More and Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity

·Review of Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney Brooks

·What Have We Learned a Year After NASDAQ Hit 5,000?

·Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2001

·My Question for Edge: Who am I? What am I?

·Arthur C. Clarke Offers His Vision of the Future

·Are We Becoming an Endangered Species? Technology and Ethics in the Twenty First Century

·Remarks on Accepting the American Composers Orchestra Award

·A Dialog with the New York Times on the Technological Implications of the September 11 Disaster

·Accelerated Living

·Response to Stephen Hawking

·Tribute to Michael Dertouzos (1936 -- 2001)

·The Human Machine Merger: Why We Will Spend Most of Our Time in Virtual Reality in the Twenty-first Century

·When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying? Computer Speech Recognition and Understanding

·One Half of An Argument

·The Singularity Is Near - Ray Kurzweil at Extro5 (Video)

·Foreword to 'The Eternal E-Customer' (book by Bryan Bergeron)

·Foreword to 'Dark Ages II' (book by Bryan Bergeron)

·In Response to

·Response to Fortune Editors' Invitational

·Spielberg catches Kubrick's Baton: A Review of

·Live Forever--Uploading The Human Brain...Closer Than You Think

·Promise And Peril

·Singularity Math Trialogue

·Ramona: Questions and Answers

·The Virtual Thomas Edison

·Kurzweil vs. Dertouzos

·The Law of Accelerating Returns

·Human Cloning is the Least of It

·The Making of Ramona

·Ramona's Story

·The Web Within Us: Minds and Machines Become One.

·The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine

·Dear PC: R.I.P.

·The Central Metaphor of Everything?

·Postscript Re: Ray Kurzweil

·Excerpts from "One Half of a Manifesto"

·Man-Computer Symbiosis

·Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network

·The Computer as a Communication Device

·Nanoethics and Human Enhancement

·The Computational Universe

·Is the universe a quantum computer?

·How Fast, How Small and How Powerful? Moore's Law and the Ultimate Laptop

·Glitches Reloaded

·GLITCHES IN THE MATRIX . . . AND HOW TO FIX THEM

·Molecular Manufacturing and the Developing World Looking to Nanotechnology for Answers

·Intelligence Augmentation

·How can a small number of genes build a complex mental machine?

·How are behaviors encoded in DNA?

·What Is Artificial Intelligence?

·Material Progress is Sustainable

·Book Review: How does the body react to medical nanodevices?

·Nanotechnology: What Will It Mean?

·It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World

·Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change

·Ambiguous Words

·The emotion universe

·Consciousness is a Big Suitcase

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence

·Bob Moog, Interviewed by Electronicmusic.com

·The Senses Have No Future

·Singularity Math Trialogue

·Robots, Re-Evolving Mind

·Ripples and Puddles

·Letter from Hans Moravec

·Max More and Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity

·Grasping the Future: Comparing Scenarios to Other Techniques

·Track 7 Tech Vectors to Take Advantage of Technological Acceleration

·Life Extension and Overpopulation

·Embrace, Don't Relinquish, the Future

·Are We Enlightened Guardians, Or Are We Apes Designing Humans?

·Sander Olson Interviews Ray Kurzweil

·Interview with Robert A. Freitas Jr. Part 2

·Interview with Robert A. Freitas Jr. Part 1

·Molecular Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science

·Bioconvergence: Progenitor of the Nanotechnology Age

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: ELIZA Passes the Turing Test

·Wild Cards: The Nature of Big Future Surprises

·How to Change the World . . . Quickly

·Foresight call to action

·Molecular Manufacturing: Societal Implications of Advanced Nanotechnology

·More Essays on Nanotechnology Implications

·Nanotech Basics

·The Need For Limits

·Revolution in a Box An Interview with the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

·Design of a Primitive Nanofactory

·Molecular Manufacturing: Start Planning

·Review of Nanocosm

·Safe Utilization of Advanced Nanotechnology

·Don't let Crichton's Prey scare you--the science isn't real

·What is the missing ingredient -- not genes, not upbringing -- that shapes the mind?

·Words and Rules

·How the Mind Works

·How to Build a Virtual Human

·A Second Wave of Network Technologies

·Globalization and Open Source Nano Economy

·From ENIAC to Everyone Talking with J. Presper Eckert

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Chapter 5: Kurzweil's Turing Fallacy

·Toward Teleportation, Time Travel and Immortality

·Infinite Memory and Bandwidth: Implications for Artificial Intelligence

·Empowering the Really Little Guys

·Green or Gray?

·Live Moderated Chat: Are We Spiritual Machines?

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Introduction: Are We Spiritual Machines? The Beginning of a Debate

·Moot Court Hearing On The Petition Of A Conscious Computer

·Biocyberethics: should we stop a company from unplugging an intelligent computer?

·What's the neurobiology of doing good and being good?

·AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!

·Every Curriculum Tells a Story

·What does it mean to have an educated mind in the 21st century?

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Mechanics of Creativity

·Can Computers Decide?

·Beyond 2001: HAL's Legacy for the Enterprise Generation

·Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III

·Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.

·Chapter 2: I Married a Computer

·Why Sleep?

·The Open Mind Common Sense Project

·Technology and Human Enhancement

·What is the Singularity?

·What is time, and what is the right language to describe change, in a closed system like the universe, which contains all of its observers?

·The Third-Generation Web is Coming

·The Cyclic Universe

·The Last Human

·Artificial Intelligence in the World Wide Web

·A Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen

·The Computer as a Communication Device

·If we are lucky, our pets may keep us as pets

·More Essays on Nanotechnology Implications

·Nano-Guns, Nano-Germs, and Nano-Steel

·Nanotech Basics

·Revolution in a Box An Interview with the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

·Safe Utilization of Advanced Nanotechnology

·Whither Psychoanalysis in a Computer Culture?

·Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough-Plasm

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: Growing Up in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Reconstructions of the Psychological and Reconsiderations of the Human

·The Emergent Self

·Lifeboat Foundation Nanoshield

·Corporate Cornucopia Examining the Special Implications of Commercial MNT Development

·What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?

·Singularity Chat with Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil

·Singularity Math Trialogue

·The Technological Singularity

·Strategic Sustainable Brain

·Radical body design "Primo Posthuman"

·Immortality

·Essentials of General Intelligence: The direct path to AGI

·Encompassing Education

·The Age of Intelligent Machines: Can Computers Think?

·Why Language Is All Thumbs

·Cyber Sapiens

·Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level Nanotechnology

·Simulating Reality

·Who Will Rule the 21st Century?

·Wolfram and Kurzweil Roundtable Discussion