The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil will be published by Viking Press on September 26, 2005. A web site focusing on the book, singularity.com, launched today, includes book excerpts, press coverage, author bio, and other resources.
In this much-anticipated sequel to The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil presents the next stage of his compelling view of the future. The merging of humans and machines — the Singularity — will be “… a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed,” he says.
..i should really finish Fantastic Voyage first, and read Age of Spiritual Machines too.. but I’ll prolly just go straight to this one..