Kurzweil's magnum opus, "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, " outlines the implications of this transition in a way that is simultaneously believable, terrifying, meticulous and mind-bendingly absurd.

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He recommended reading The Singularity is Near.

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