The national bestseller by the "ultimate thinking machine" ( Forbes ) whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative--and closer to fruition than you think.

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.

" The Age of Spiritual Machines will blow your mind. . . . Kurzweil lays out a scenario that might seem like science fiction if it weren't coming from a proven entrepreneur."-- San Francisco Chronicle

The Age of Spiritual Machines appeared on national bestseller lists, including the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle

Kurzweil's first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines , won the Association of American Publishers Award for the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990

雷·库兹韦尔集预言大师、科技大师、人类社会发展大师、“爱迪生的正统接班人”于一体的大师中的大师。他是全球公认最顶尖的发明家、思想家和未来学家。《华尔街日报》称他为“永不满足的天才”，《福布斯》杂志称他为“终极思考机器”，美国公共电视台称他为“开创美国的16位改革家”之一。他还是美国国家科技奖章得主，入选美国发明家名人堂，拥有19个荣誉博士学位，并三度获颁总统荣誉奖。

2012年12月17日，雷·库兹韦尔受Google创始人拉里·佩奇之邀加入Google，担任Google的工程总监。Google的绝密实验室Google X在运作很多项目如Google眼镜、自动化住宅、智能手表、无人驾驶汽车、Wi-Fi气球等，无不留下了库兹韦尔的印痕。