Singularity

Books about the theorized technological singularity.
The technological singularity is a theoretical future point that takes place during a period of unprecedented technological progress sometime after the creation of a Superintelligence.
This bookshelf contains both fiction and non-fiction, some dealing directly with the topic, some indirectly.

Note: There is also a Goodreads group by the same title. The bookshelf in that group is not the same as this list, although the two should be largely congruent.

(See wikipedia for more information on the topic and many other links.)
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Accelerando
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
The Rapture of the Nerds
The Age of Spiritual Machines
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
Glasshouse
Avogadro Corp (Singularity, #1)
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
Rainbows End
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Permutation City

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Abhijit Naskar
Age of AI (The Sonnet) Welcome to the age of AI, where algorithms grow bigger, and minds get smaller, where freedom is the new prison, character retreats as cave dweller. Welcome to the age of AI, where deceit is the new creativity, where hate is a human right, malinformation is a legal industry. Welcome to the age of AI, where algorithms are still nonsentient, but so are the people that use them, mindlessness is trend of the new sapiens. Welcome to the age of AI, where global goals are stil ...more
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Dejan Stojanovic
In a singularity, there is no space and time; time is a consequence of space. Space and time are only possible in plurality. The irruption of singularity into plurality is the cause of space and time as we perceive it.
Dejan Stojanovic

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