[ExI] Fw: upon pondering your next million years

[samantha]

Olga Bourlin wrote:
> From: Jonathan El-Bizri
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:51 PM
>
> At 08:20 PM 7/23/2008 -0700, John Grigg wrote:
>
>>>> P.S. Damien, when do you plan for a new edition of _The Spike_?
>
>> I think Kurzweil's book has made that impossible. (Pretty strange to 
>> recall that I'd already finished writing the first edition 12 years 
>> ago, and was awaiting publication in 1997...)
>
>> Which is a pity, since I give your book to almost everyone, and the 
>> few people I've given a copy of Kurzweil's 'tome' to still haven't 
>> made it through the first chapter :>
>
> Ahh, and some of them may have been introduced to Singularity with 
> this video (Kurzweil's book gets flashed towards the end ...):
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKG5l_TDU8

Excellent!   :-)    As far as Kurzweil goes I thought the Age of 
Spiritual Machines was better than his latter tome.   The Singularity is 
Near I found rather repetitive of prior ideas and quite rambling with 
some very questionable opinions and current views mixed in.  It is not 
on my favorite books list.   I enjoyed the Spike much more at the time I 
read it although that could in part be because it was my first book 
length treatment on the subject when I was younger in this "cult".  :-)

- samantha