The Singularity is Near

I had the good fortune of picking up the book "The Singularity is Near" a few years ago from Barnes and Noble. Due to the short shelf life of everything these days, they were putting the hardback edition on clearance.

It's a very interesting book on the march of technology, where technology heads inevitably and directly to the singularity. What fascinated me was the copious amount of graphs depicting the exponential rise of human progress.

Semiconductors grow exponentially as the cost decreases exponentially (according to Moore's law). New technologies (like cell phones) become rapidly adopted as previous technologies are discarded. And the pace keeps accelerating until we hit the singularity and we transcend biology.




http://www.singularity.com/aboutthebook.html

Make sure that you check out the graphs from the book as many of them are online here:

http://www.singularity.com/charts/page17.html