William Kennedy, director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development and University Ombuds Officer, recommends
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology to the Michigan Tech community. The book is currently on display in the new books area and will be available to check out beginning Nov. 16.
“About a hundred pages into Kurzweil’s book, I began to appreciate the likely synergy between neuroscience and artificial intelligence research. Kurzweil is one of those amazing people whose breadth of understanding is, well, humbling. He suggests that within a decade or two, most of the work that humans presently do will be routinely performed by fast, cheap machines. What will the future hold for all of us in terms of work and play? Kurzweil provides a glimpse into the future by extrapolating a trajectory from the past and present of rapidly changing complementary technologies. ”
