微软创始人比尔·盖茨曾经称雷·库兹韦尔是“我知道在预测人工智能上最厉害的人”。过去30年他对未来预测的准确率超过了86%。在这本书中，雷·库兹韦尔阐述了极其令人信服的大胆预测：未来的世界，人类和机器将难分彼此，人类将不再是万物之灵。电脑将比人脑有高一万倍的智能。量子计算将引爆技术未来。机器不仅拥有智能，而且拥有心灵，将具有人类的意识、情绪和欲望。人类身体中植入了用生物工程和纳米材料制成的电脑芯片、人造器官，将比现代人类更长寿（甚至长生不老），有更强的学习能力，更灵敏的视觉和听觉。虚拟现实有可能使人机发生“恋爱”……你会认为这不可能？当人类不再继续生活在树上，并且吃烤熟了的东西的时候，有某个猴子也是和你一样看待人类进化的。

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.