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Science 30 April 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5415, p. 745
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5415.745
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Books

COMPUTERS:
How Human Can They Get?

A review by Diane Proudfoot

The Age of Spiritual Machines When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil
Viking, New York, 1999. 400 pp. $25.95. ISBN 0-670-88217-8.

Kurzweil predicts that the next century will witness the fusion of humans and machines, but the reviewer finds such predictions for the future undercut by shortcomings in the book's account of the present and recent past.
The author is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. E-mail: d.proudfoot{at}phil.canterbury.ac.nz

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)