For 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.

三十多年来，雷·库兹韦尔（Ray Kurzweil）一直是最受尊重和最具挑衅性的技术在我们未来作用的倡导者之一。在他的经典著作《精神机器时代》（The Age of Spirior Machines）中，他认为计算机将很快在最佳状态下与人类的全部智能相抗衡。现在，他考察了这一不可阻挡的进化过程的下一步：人与机器的结合，在这一过程中，嵌入我们大脑的知识和技能将与我们创造的更大的能力、速度和知识共享能力相结合。