The end of the human era. The last question / Isaac Asimov -- The flesh / J.D. Bernal -- Day million / Frederick Pohl -- The posthumans. Thought and action / Olaf Stapledon -- The coming technological singularity: how to survive in the post-human era / Vernor Vinge -- Hive mind man / Rudy Rucker & Eileen Gunn -- Sunken gardens / Bruce Sterling -- Across the event horizon. The six epochs / Ray Kurzweil -- Crystal nights / Greg Egan -- Firewall / David D. Levine -- The cookie monster / Vernor Vinge -- Cracklegrackle / Justina Robson -- The others. Nightfall / Charles Stross -- Coelacanths / Robert Reed -- The great awakening / Ruby Rucker -- True names / Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum -- The server and the dragon / Hannu Rajaniemi -- The inevitable heat death of the universe / Elizabeth Bear.
Summary:
A selection of fiction and nonfiction traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality.
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