consciousness and
development of
end of
expansion and contraction of
Law of Accelerating Returns and
life in
relevance of intelligence to
visits from other planets in
Ussachevsky, Vladimir
Utility Fog
venture capital
virtual environments, in games
virtual reality
feelings in
nanotechnology swarms in
neural implants and
sexual interaction in
tactile technologies in .7
Virtual Retina Display (VRD)
viruses
Visible Human Project
vision chip
visual arts
Vlastos, Gregory
Voice Xpress Plus
Von Neumann, John
Waltz, David
Wang, An
wars, warfare
Gulf War
in 2009
in 2019 see also World War II
Washoe
Watson, James D.
Watson, Thomas J.
weak force
weapons
bioengineered
nanoweapons
weavers
Weizenbaum, Joseph
Whitehead, Alfred North
Wilde, Oscar
Wilson, James Q.
Winograd, Terry
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wonder, Stevie
word processing
voice-activated; see also speech recognition
World War II
Enigma code and
World Wide Web (WWW)
adult entertainment on
list of sites
in twenty-first century see also Internet
writing, see literary arts
Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center
Y2K (Year 2000 Problem)
Yeats, William Butler
Yim, Mark
Young, R. W
Zettl, Alex
Zimmerman, Phil
Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
PART ONE - PROBING THE PAST
CHAPTER ONE - THE LAW OF TIME AND CHAOS
CHAPTER TWO - THE INTELLIGENCE OF EVOLUTION
CHAPTER THREE - OF MIND AND MACHINES
CHAPTER FOUR - A NEW FORM OF INTELLIGENCE ON EARTH
CHAPTER FIVE - CONTEXT AND KNOWLEDGE
PART TWO - PREPARING THE PRESENT
CHAPTER SIX - BUILDING NEW BRAINS ...
CHAPTER SEVEN - ... AND BODIES
CHAPTER EIGHT - 1999
PART THREE - TO FACE THE FUTURE
CHAPTER NINE - 2009
CHAPTER TEN - 2019
CHAPTER ELEVEN - 2029
CHAPTER TWELVE - 2099
EPILOGUE:
TIME LINE
HOW TO BUILD AN INTELLIGENT MACHINE IN THREE EASY PARADIGMS
GLOSSARY
NOTES
SUGGESTED READINGS
WEB LINKS
INDEX
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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