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Many commentators on these changes focus on what they
perceive as a loss of some vital aspect of our humanity that will result from
this transition. This perspective stems, however, from a misunderstanding of
what our technology will become. All the machines we have met to date lack the
essential subtlety of human biological qualities. Although the Singularity has
many faces, its most important implication is this: our technology will match
and then vastly exceed the refinement and suppleness of what we regard as the
best of human traits.
From The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Copyright Ray Kurzweil 2005. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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