The Spike (1997)
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The Spike is a 1997 book by Damien Broderick
exploring the future of technology, and in particular the concept of the technological singularity
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A revised and updated edition was published in 2001 as The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-312-87781-1 he ISBN 0-312-87782-X pbk. Library of Congress T14.B75 2001.
Damien Broderick
Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
exploring the future of technology, and in particular the concept of the technological singularity
Technological singularity
Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means. Since the capabilities of such an intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as...
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A revised and updated edition was published in 2001 as The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-312-87781-1 he ISBN 0-312-87782-X pbk. Library of Congress T14.B75 2001.
External links
- review of 1997 paperback edition