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Apr 02, 2011SunKing2 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This book is Moore's Law dragged out to hundreds of pages: computing power doubles every two years. However, Kurzweil starts applying it to all technology and progress in general, and starts talking about the expansion of intelligence (in the form of some future machine-man hybrid) into the entire universe before 2100. In this he gets completely carried away. It might be possible that machines can create better versions of themselves in the future, and that in turn creates an explosive rate of technological development, but generalizing it to all areas of scientific advancement is a little much. This book is worth perusing if you can ignore the repetition and wild tangents he goes on. Also read "The World in 2050" a shorter, better and less far-fetched book.