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Fantastic Voyage

Live Long Enough to Live Forever

Fantastic Voyage( )
Author: Kurzweil, Ray
Grossman, Terry
ISBN:978-0-452-28667-2
Publication Date:Sep 2005
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Plume
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.00
Book Description:

From the author of The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind comes a book about the science behind radical life extension. Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology occur practically every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Fantastic Voyage shows us how we can use these new technologies to live longer than previously...
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Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Health & Fitness / Longevity
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.03 x 8.97 x 1.02 Inches
Book Weight:1.1 Pounds
Author Biography
Kurzweil, Ray (Author)
Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.

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