Singularity Studies Reader -

This post is fulfilling a promise to pablobastard, but it should prove beneficial to others as well.

• "The Age of Intellectual Machines", Ray Kurzweil
  
• "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence", Ray Kurzweil
  
• "Are We Spiritual Machines?: Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong AI", Jay Richards, et al
  
• "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever", Ray Kurzweil & Terry Grossman
  
• "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology", Ray Kurzweil (September '05 release)
  
• "Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind", Hans Moravec
  
• "Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence", Hans Moravec
  
• "Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution", Eric Drexler et al
  
• "Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology", Eric Drexler
  
• "The Spike: How Our Lives are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies", Damien Broderick
  
• "The Last Mortal Generation: How Science Will Alter Our Lives in the 21st Century", Damien Broderick
  
• "The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems", Fritjof Capra
  
• "The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive and Social Dimensions of Life Into a Science of Sustainability", Fritjof Capra
  
• "Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality", Fritjof Capra
  
• "The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture", Fritjof Capra
  
• "The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living", Fritjof Capra
  
• "Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World", FM-2030
  
• "Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us", Rodney Brooks
  
• "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics", Roger Penrose
  
• "Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age", Chris Gray
  
• "Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence", Andy Clark
  
• "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", Thomas Kuhn
  
• "Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future", James Hughes
  
• "Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future", Gregory Stock
  
• "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science", Mihail Roco & William Bainbridge (eds)
  
• "More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement", Ramez Naam
  
• "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century", John Brockman (ed)
  
• "Arguing AI: The Battle for Twenty-first Century Science", Sam Williams
  
• "A Brief History of Tomorrow", Jonathan Margolis
  
• "The Scientific Conquest of Death", Immortality Institute
  
• "Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species", Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio
  
• "On Intelligence", Jeff Hawkins
  
• "Darwin Among Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence", George Dyson
  
• "When Things Start to Think", Neil Gershenfeld
  
• "FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop: From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication", Neil Gershenfeld
  
• "The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps", Marshall Savage
  
• "Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age", Bart Kosko
  
• "Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence will Transform Our World", Douglas Mulhall
  
• "Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds", Gregory Paul, Earl Cox
  
• "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge", Ed Regis

That should keep folks busy.

I am not inclined to refer books that I haven't read, but I haven't read all these. I've probably read about 90% of them, and the others I've either got on my wish list or have been considering.

This list is obviously still in development. If readers have additional texts to recommend, I'll include it in edits, with the appropriate disclaimer. Thus far I've only included non-fiction works.

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." - Albert Einstein

cross-posted: forward_looking, futuretech, phil_of_science, singularity_now, tessier_ashpool, the_quickening, the_robots, transhumanist.