Essay collection | The Ray Kurzweil Reader

July 10, 2003

The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology, and other aspects of our future world. These essays, published  from 2001 to 2003, are now available as a PDF document for convenient downloading and offline reading. The 30 essays, organized in seven topic areas (such as “How to Build a Brain”), cover subjects ranging from a review of Matrix Reloaded to “The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine” and “Human Body Version 2.0.”

Click here to download The Ray Kurzweil Reader (Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later required; PDF file, 4.4 MB).