Ray Kurzweil is out with another book (See AlwaysOn/Slashdot review: The Singularity is Near and "Here it Comes" in the Wall Street Journal).
I've been a huge fan of Kurzweil since reading a copy of "The Age of Spiritual Machines" a number of years ago and I look forward to getting a copy of his latest work. Say what you will about his utopian view of the world, but Kurzweil opens the reader's eyes to what is possible, and what is likely coming in the future. His conversational style of writing allows him to explore extremely complex issues in terms the average reader can easily understand. Sometimes it's scary, sometimes it's unbelievable, but denial of the future won't prevent it from happening.
Of course, for the counter-Kurzweil school of thought, there is always Bill Joy's "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us."
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