Singularity is Near 2005
<p class="default">Jun 21, 2012 09:23 PM
how popular is it?  (as a guage to how popular my book might be)...
196 customer reviews... 4/5 stars...
it is #27 in future of computing
and #23 in biotech
672 pages...
Best Sellers Rank =  7,107
 
Feb 01, 2011 12:21 PM  also see the Wiki site qv on Sing is Near with <b>specific predictions</b>.
and also singularity.com  is the website for the book.
My hard copy  hardcover is kept on 2nd shelf south wall ...  fast access shelf.  black cover.
 
<b>Published in 2005</b>!  
 
11:16 AM, May 26, 2006
 
The Singularity is Near
Subtitle: When Humans Transcend Biology
Viking (Published by the Penguin Group)
(c) 2005;
 
p7 <b>"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer.</b>....
 
p10 "When the first transhuman intelligence is created and launches itself into recursive self-improvement,
a fundamental discontinuity is likely to occur, the likes of which I can't even begin to predict. Michael Anissimov
 
The Six Epochs
 
<b>First we build the tools, then they build us. Marshall McLuhan</b>.....
 
Epoch Five: Merger of Technology and Human Intelligence (Technology masters the methods of biology (including human intelligence))........
 
Vernor Vinge "The Technological Singularity" 1993
 
Irving John Good "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligenct Machine 1965"
"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activites of any man however clever.
Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligenct machine could design even better machines;
there would unquestionably be an intelligence explosion and the intelligence of man would be left far behind.
Thus, the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
 
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Staring into the Singularity 1996
"<b> Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are;</b>..............
any problems beyond that are not ours to solve ...
There are<b> no hard problem, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence</b>.
Move the smallest bit upwards (in level of intelligence),
and some problems will suddenly move from impossible to obvious.
Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious......</p>