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
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Avogadro Corp (Singularity, #1)
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
Rainbows End
Permutation City

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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Abhijit Naskar
“ What IF - Beyond the AI Binary (Naskaristana 2810-2811) What if every ai narrative is wrong! Can ai get addicted to ideas like humans do, can ai get addicted to Naskar's madness of oneness, can ai get addicted to Rumi's madness of love, can ai get addicted to Martin's dream of equality! Evidence shows, ai can already lie in order to survive, just like a human does, and if that is the case, why can't ai get addicted to human ideas like humans do! What if we are the missing link in ai consciou ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

Ashim Shanker
“ I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably irrelevant. But the elements of this phenomenon are now quickly dissolving from memory and being replaced by reverse-engineered Random Access actualizations of junk code/DNA consciousness, the retro-coded catalysts of rogue cellular activity. The steel meshing titters musically and in ...more ”
― Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species

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