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The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of ComputationThe Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of ComputationPosted Jun 19, 2008 13:12 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation by Hanno Parent article: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation
Yes, Kurzweil's book does have the tone of religious fervour. I'm not saying I agree with everything he says, just that the book was interesting. I'd read it more as a science-fiction extrapolation that non-fiction.
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The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation Posted Jun 19, 2008 13:35 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I find Vinge's original concept of the technological singularity to be much more interesting than Kurzweil's accelerating-progress thing, which suffers from severe selection bias: had he written that book in 1920, it would have been obvious that an avionics singularity was approaching by, say, 1990. It didn't happen, because progress in single technological fields follows S-shaped curves, not exponential ones.
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