Download or read book The Singularity Is Nearer written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA. The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.

Download or read book Nearer My God written by William F. Buckley, Jr. and published by Image. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Roman-Catholic faith has been an enduring part of the life and personality of William Buckley, Jr. Now, for the first time since his ground breaking God and the Man at Yale he has written a book about faith--his own. Nearer, My God, An Autobiography of Faith is William Buckley's superbly written story of his life seen through his abiding love for the Catholic Church, a love instilled in him from childhood. He reminisces about his school days in England, his family, the affect the Lunn/Knox dialogue had on him, and examines many aspects of Catholicism and its theology, doctrine and liturgy and on the way discourses about Lourdes, the vernacular mass, the Church and the State, the Crucifixion, the priesthood, contraception as well as the many people who have assisted him on his life's journey. A remarkable, revealing book about one man and his faith.

Download or read book Nearer written by Arthur Saltzman and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, witty, and elegiac, Nearer’s 25 essays show the imagination at work and play amid the ambiguities, consternations, and beauties of the world.

Download or read book Nearer to Jesus Dear Jesus Jesus Calling written by Sarah Young and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If drawing nearer to Jesus is the longing of your heart, listen. Listen while in His Presence. Listen moment by moment as you are struggling, as you wonder, as you praise. Listen even as you express the cries of your heart to the living God. Invite Him to enter into the here and now with you, His Peace permeating your spirit, His Love and assurance whispering to your soul. Bring Him your thoughts, feelings, concerns in this very hour-where He meets you...and find Him nearer than you ever imagined.

Download or read book Nearer to Thee written by T. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nearer to God written by Wayman Jr. Ming and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliminate the Spiritual Distance between You and God Do you feel far from God? Perhaps you desire nearness, but you end up filling your calendar instead of communing with the Savior. Wayman Ming Jr. will show you how daily interruptions are divine opportunities to evaluate your life and close the spiritual gap between you and God. If you have become too comfortable in the daily practice of your faith, or you are on a quest to go deeper, this book will help you draw near to your Creator and pursue His heart with passion as you · identify and remove obstacles in finding God · deepen your roots of daily prayer and devotion · find peace and hope in God's presence amid trials · develop spiritual rhythms with the Holy Spirit · hunger for personal revival and spiritual awakening in our culture God is reforming how we think and act as followers of His Son. The Holy Spirit will empower your full pursuit of what matters most and help you align your life with His plans--for your good! "While God's 'interruptions' in our lives often do not make sense to us, He desires that we seek Him in all circumstances: good, bad and ugly. Nearer to God challenges us to see these interruptions as invitations to a closer walk with God."--Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership

Download or read book The Nearer East written by David George Hogarth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1902 survey of the contemporary political and commercial significance of the Near East, by British archaeologist D. G. Hogarth.

Download or read book A Survey of Physical Problems of the Nearer Planets and a Review of Observational Techniques Applicable to Balloon borne Telescope Systems written by Gérard De Vaucouleurs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nowhere Nearer written by Alice Miller and published by Pavilion Poetry. This book was released on 2018 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is nowhere a place we can get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures. These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices, searching for the word's version of music's home key. They dare you to visit, through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.

Download or read book The Nearer the Dawn written by JP Barry and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Nina Luther, living a lie is life in its purest form. As a child, Nina knew she and her entire family were different. The Mortals who surround her fear the unknowingness of what they will become. Nina has no such fear. She is all too aware her time here on Earth will be plagued by her Heavenly gift to help others. All Nina desires is to be an average high school senior, but she cannot hide from her divine destiny. While adapting to her family’s recent move to Savannah, Georgia, Nina falls hard for Chase James, a mysterious loner with a dark, Demonic secret of his own. In this world there are saints and sinners. The difference between the two: every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Who will be the last one standing? Will the demonic uprising on Earth mean the end for the Mortal Angel Nina? Or will she live to die another day?

Download or read book Nearer My Freedom written by Monica Edinger and published by Zest Books TM. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary source text, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge share Equiano's life story in "found verse," supplemented with annotations to give readers historical context. This poetic approach provides interesting analysis and synthesis, helping readers to better understand the original text. Follow Equiano from his life in Africa as a child to his enslavement at a young age, his travels across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, his liberation, and his life as a free man.

Download or read book Nearer and Dearer written by Cuthbert Bede and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reconnaissance of the Nearer Planets written by G. De Vaucouleurs and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion is divided into two parts: the first part is a summary of the best present information of the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars, gained almost entirely from ground-based observatories. The second part outlines how these methods could be extended to observations from balloon observatories, and especially from space probes and orbiters in the immediate vicinity of the planets.

Download or read book Nearer Than The Sky written by T. Greenwood and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author draws readers into the fascinating world of Munchausen syndrome by proxy in this “totally absorbing novel about daughters and mothers” (Ursula Hegi, author of The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls). When Indie Brown was four years old, she was struck by lightning. In the oft-told version of the story, Indie’s life was heroically saved by her mother. But Indie’s own recollection of the event, while hazy, is very different. Most of Indie’s childhood memories are like this—tinged with vague, unsettling images and suspicions. Her mother, Judy, fussed over her pretty youngest daughter, Lily, as much as she ignored Indie. That neglect, coupled with the death of her beloved older brother, is the reason Indie now lives far away in rural Maine. It’s why her relationship with Lily is filled with tension, and why she dreads the thought of flying back to Arizona. But she has no choice. Judy is gravely ill, and Lily, struggling with a challenge of her own, needs her help. In Arizona, faced with Lily’s hysteria and their mother’s instability, Indie slowly begins to confront the truth about her half-remembered past and the legacy that still haunts her family. And as she revisits her childhood, with its nightmares and lost innocence, she finds she must reevaluate the choices of her adulthood—including her most precious relationships. “Lush, evocative.” —The New York Times Book Review “A complicated story of love and abuse told with a directness and intensity that pack a lightning charge.” —Booklist “A lyrical investigation into the unreliability and elusiveness of memory . . . the kaleidoscopic heart of the story is rich with evocative details about its heroine’s inner life.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Nearer to Never written by R. S. Mason and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath every day experience. As the title suggests, the poems in R. S. Mason’s Nearer to Never paradoxically comprise a book of the unmanifest, a poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience. Recalling Blake, Baudelaire, and Eliot, Mason addresses the innately sacred, melding philosophy, aesthetics, and Buddhist precepts into a lyrical work that is truly modern and avant-garde. Rendered in a straightforward lyrical style, the poems are oddly comprehensible, at times darkly humorous. The language is fresh, elemental, and ludic; the writing is clean, direct, and empowered. Some poems wrestle with the conclusion that life reduces itself to some mere, otherworldly absence; while others reveal the false prison of the ideal, either humanistically or religiously constructed. The poems invite a reader’s most intimate aesthetic engagement, through the technique of radical doubt or, in the Buddhist tradition, “beginner’s mind”—whereby each poem unlocks. In his debut, Mason drives poetry beyond the well-worn schisms established in the previous century, successfully showing that the irreconcilable can cohere, and the inexpressible can, at the most, be sketched. “Zip” I will not ascend on an engine A bobble scope, a space-kit Nor breathe pure oxygen As I rumble through the finite ‘What’s indestructible Is fragile’ I would utter In my voice-box! Rambling through The depth and breadth Without ever Blasting off

Download or read book One Day Nearer written by Steve Miller and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 Days of Keeping Watch and Finding Hope The absolute certainty of Christ’s return is proclaimed all through the Bible. God has given us many prophecies about this wonderful event to fill us with hope. In a world that is descending deeper into evil and darkness, Bible prophecy is God’s way of assuring us that, ultimately, goodness and righteousness will prevail. One Day Nearer is an invitation to let the great truths and promises found in Bible prophecy encourage you. As you read the 365 daily devotions within, you will see God’s love, power, and wisdom on display in all that He has done and will do at Christ’s first and second comings learn what it means to live wisely in these last days and set your mind on things that are above discover the many ways God is committed to sustaining you today and will bless you in the future The more we take God’s prophetic promises to heart, the more we will live each day with an eternal perspective—one that enables us to persevere through life’s challenges, live in anticipation of Christ’s return, and rejoice in the wonders of heaven and eternity.

Download or read book Nearer to Thee written by Clare Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria believes herself to be a model, young Catholic lady. Then her family moves away, and Maria has to stand on her own feet. She finds that her Catholic principles stand between her and her non-Catholic suitor.