I highly endorse "The Age of Spiritual Machines" if you are interested in the future of human and machine society 10, 20, 30, and 100 years from now. Kurweil gives a great breadth of background knowledge and ties together evident trends appearing in various fields ranging physics, biology, computer science, philosophy, and art to support his predictions. I would recommend scanning through Kurzweil's site and especially his archives for a wealth of interesting conjecture about human and machine evolution into the coming century.
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I highly endorse "The Age of Spiritual Machines" if you are interested in the future of human and machine society 10, 20, 30, and 100 years from now. Kurweil gives a great breadth of background knowledge and ties together evident trends appearing in various fields ranging physics, biology, computer science, philosophy, and art to support his predictions. I would recommend scanning through Kurzweil's site and especially his archives for a wealth of interesting conjecture about human and machine evolution into the coming century. http://www.kurzweilai.net/