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A review by wannabekingpin
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
4.0
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The book is all wonderful and great, with author making solid theories about his future predictions, evolution of technology. But that's the thing. Much like the quote he used: will the Universe end with a crack or a squeak? So did the book end with be it a crack or a squeak. We start with solid stuff, and we end up in 2099, a fantastical setting of Detroit: Become Human, on the verge of considering android civil rights, basically. And while he explained that train of thought well, to me this is still going form non-fiction, to science-fiction, which felt as a derailing of sorts.
The book is good, easy to read and understand, but still full of food for thought. I can give it a solid 4 out of 5, for you might not mind the "so now, let's daydream about the future" the way I did.
night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
The book is all wonderful and great, with author making solid theories about his future predictions, evolution of technology. But that's the thing. Much like the quote he used: will the Universe end with a crack or a squeak? So did the book end with be it a crack or a squeak. We start with solid stuff, and we end up in 2099, a fantastical setting of Detroit: Become Human, on the verge of considering android civil rights, basically. And while he explained that train of thought well, to me this is still going form non-fiction, to science-fiction, which felt as a derailing of sorts.
The book is good, easy to read and understand, but still full of food for thought. I can give it a solid 4 out of 5, for you might not mind the "so now, let's daydream about the future" the way I did.