The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
10 people recommended it in 10 threads, 2008–2025.
What people on Hacker News said
So I finally finished The Singularity is Near and started looking for good futurist blogs to subscribe to. I feel like I should probably also start reading those "general purpose" science magazines (Sci Am, Discover, Popular Science, New Scientist, etc.) again as well.
This is more of a popular computer science book. I don't any other book articulates the true (optimistic) potential of the computer better than this. It made me appreciate computers more than any other machine.
I don't think until that point I had really understood the idea of accelerating progress, like I knew that I wanted to work in technology just out of interest, but that book really instilled in me that the pace of change could be really quite rapid through my career, which to me made it all the more exciting.
Super optimistic author and indeed a great book to think about after reading it.
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