Books like Transcend by Ray Kurzweil

Erik Brynjolfsson explores how digital technologies are reshaping work, productivity, and society—highlighting both the opportunities and the disruptions—and offers strategies for education, collaboration, and policy in the emerging economy.

Kurzweil explores the coming fusion of human minds with advanced machines, predicting that integrated intelligence will surpass current human capacity, shaping future society.

Michio Kaku charts humanity’s probable future as it expands beyond Earth, examining space‑colonization, terraforming, nanotechnology, and interstellar travel.

James Barrat’s Our Final Invention examines how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence—present in phones, cars, finance, and infrastructure—could soon outpace human intellect and threaten humanity’s future.

Ray Kurzweil's 2024 book The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI is a sequel to his 2005 bestseller The Singularity Is Near. It updates readers on the progress made in the past decade towards the singularity, a point where human and machine intelligence merge. Kurzweil predicts that by 2029, AI will surpass human capabilities in every skill.

"S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes, leading research scientists in the fields of aging and biodemography, separate fact from fiction in this new book. Medical technology already allows us to prevent and overcome a dizzying array of illnesses that once were inevitably debilitating or deadly, and researchers are delving even further into the roots of aging, exploring patterns of damage and repair down to the cellular level and launching into the incredibly exciting but also frightening biomedical frontier of genetic engineering.". "The Quest for Immortality makes clear the difference between science and pseudoscience. Even more important, the authors carefully distinguish between the foolish quest simply to prolong life and the true dream we all share: to live long lives while remaining independent and in good health.". "Olshansky and Carnes lift from our shoulders the burdens of vitamin vigilance, lifestyle crazes, and other fallacious schemes that some would have us believe are necessary for a long, healthy life. In their prescription for the twenty-first century, they offer us a positive - and accurate - understanding of health, disease, and aging that will maximize both the length and the quality of our lives."--BOOK JACKET.

-- How to Create a Mind Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world?s problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind.

This rollicking scientific adventure story is science writing of the highest order and with the highest stakes. Could we live forever? And if we could--would we want to?--From publisher description.

Set in revolutionary France, the novel follows inventor Claude Page as he develops his skills in enameling, watchmaking, and erotica, ultimately creating a striking talking mechanical head that propels him toward a dramatic and bizarre end.