That medical advancements could keep a significant number of his generation ( Baby Boomers) alive long enough for the exponential growth of technology to intersect and surpass the processing of the human brain.That the functionality of the human brain is quantifiable in terms of technology that we can build in the near future. That through a law of accelerating returns, technology is progressing toward the singularity at an exponential rate.That a technological-evolutionary point known as "the singularity" exists as an achievable goal for humanity (the exact nature of the point is an arbitrarily high level of technology).His reasoning rests on the combination of four postulates: In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil attempts to give us a glimpse of what awaits us in the near future. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology ( Viking Penguin, ISBN 4-7) is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1987 book The Age of Intelligent Machines.
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