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b'For Educational Purposes. ("The Singularity is near: When Humans Transend Biology" by Ray Kurzweil, 2005, from page 374, "We need a new religion..").\\u201cStartling in scope and bravado.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2014Janet Maslin,\\xa0The New York Times\\n\\n\\u201cArtfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2014Los Angeles Times\\n\\n\\u201cElaborate, smart and persuasive.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2014The Boston Globe\\n\\n\\u201cA pleasure to read.\\u201d\\xa0\\u2014The Wall Street Journal\\n\\nOne of\\xa0CBS News\\u2019s Best Fall Books of 2005\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0Among\\xa0St Louis Post-Dispatch\\u2019s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0One of Amazon.com\\u2019s Best Science Books of 2005\\n\\nA radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of\\xa0How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Nearer\\xa0who Bill Gates calls \\u201cthe best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence\\u201d\\n\\nFor over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations."'