The technological singularity is approaching. What science fiction books do you recommend for the purpose of mentally preparing for, and affecting, what according to singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil may happen during the coming 40 years or so? I want science fiction that treats issues on the coming continuingly accelerating technology development and its political consequences, stuff that is interesting for humanity's development; paradise engineering scenarios as well as disaster scenarios. I want the kind of hardcore, science-based but still mind-blowing science fiction ideas that singularitarians say may be relevant to our political (and also individual) decisions in our REAL life the coming decades.
2007-02-25 02:02:58 · 4 answers · asked by Justin Case 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Robert Heinlein is the master and has given a future that is slowly being fulfilled, from Citizen of the Galaxy to Lazarus long, it is coming at us rapidly and I am loving every minute of it. Be patient watch and we will all be amazed.
2007-03-03 16:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rudy Rucker is wonderful. So is Gibson's Neuromancer. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age. I love David Brin's Uplift War books. Greg Bear's Blood Music.
2007-02-28 00:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't rely on science fiction to prepare for the future if I were you. I relied on it for that back in the 1960s, and was all prepared for cities on the Moon, routine interplanetary flight, video phones, nuclear war and such. It said almost nothing about a world wide network of computers or global warming or terrorism.
2007-02-25 02:23:06 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I wouldn't rely on the Bible.
2007-03-03 14:51:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋