The book The Singularity is Near I was written by Rey Kurzweil, an American author, inventor, and futurist. The book talks about the author’s concept of “Singularity”, or the fusion of humans and machines. He points out that humans will inevitably mutate because of the effects of fast-paced developments in technology. Furthermore, Kurzweil theorizes that we are actually experiencing the initial stages of this evolution (Kurzweil).
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“A related but distinct question has to do with our own identities. We talked earlier about the potential to upload the patterns of an individual mind—knowledge, skills, personality, memories—to another ...
