vulturesrow
09-22-2005, 01:38 PM
I discovered this book today that I plan on reading.
HEre is the Amazon link: The Singularity is Near (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033847/qid=1127263326/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3044875-5964008?v=glance&s=books&n=507846/marginalrevol-20)
Were this singularity to come about, I would no longer have any reason to believe God, barring a direct revelation from God himself. Here is a description of the book:
The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an event—the "singularity"—in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event— a human- machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death; and virtually any physical product can be created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near also considers the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005.
Here is a link to the blog post that led me to this book. It has some good links in it related to the book.
Is the Singularity Near? (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/09/the_singularity.html)
HEre is the Amazon link: The Singularity is Near (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033847/qid=1127263326/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3044875-5964008?v=glance&s=books&n=507846/marginalrevol-20)
Were this singularity to come about, I would no longer have any reason to believe God, barring a direct revelation from God himself. Here is a description of the book:
The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an event—the "singularity"—in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event— a human- machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death; and virtually any physical product can be created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near also considers the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005.
Here is a link to the blog post that led me to this book. It has some good links in it related to the book.
Is the Singularity Near? (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/09/the_singularity.html)