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Nick Bostrom On Amazon A New York Times bestseller Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack.…

Kurzweil is one of the fathers of computer science and is best known for inventing key speech‑recognition and music‑synthesis technology, but he’s also the most audited futurist alive. Roughly every decade since the 1970s he’s published quantitative forecasts; independent analysts put his historical accuracy in the 80‑90 percent range. Why this edition matters: