“Do you believe that future thinking machines are likely within our lifetimes?”  After reading this book, the emphatic answer is, “Yes. Let’s get prepared ”  Easy to read, well researched, provocative and written in layman’s language by Charles J. Simon, a uniquely qualified nationally-recognized computer softwarehardware expert and neural network software pioneer.  For those imagining the future directions of computer intelligent technology, this book gives readers an excellent place to start.  Many real-world examples are included for the layman with enough technical detail for the computer expert.“The march of technology will eventually lead to computers with more processing power than the human brain,” says the author, Charles Simon. This book demonstrates intelligence in terms of a number of specific behaviors which are clearly necessary components of thinking and explains how each is not only possible in future computers, but inevitable.