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·庫茲韋爾集預言大師、科技大師、人類社會發展大師、“愛迪生的正統接班人”於一體的大師中的大師。他是全球公認最頂尖的發明傢、思想傢和未來學傢。《華爾街日報》稱他為“永不滿足的天纔”，《福布斯》雜誌稱他為“終極思考機器”，美國公共電視颱稱他為“開創美國的16位改革傢”之一。他還是美國國傢科技奬章得主，入選美國發明傢名人堂，擁有19個榮譽博士學位，並三度獲頒總統榮譽奬。

2012年12月17日，雷·庫茲韋爾受Google創始人拉裏·佩奇之邀加入Google，擔任Google的工程總監。Google的絕密實驗室Google X在運作很多項目如Google眼鏡、自動化住宅、智能手錶、無人駕駛汽車、Wi-Fi氣球等，無不留下瞭庫茲韋爾的印痕。