The urgency of this book comes from the nature of exponential change itself. Trends that were barely noticeable at the start of this century are now actively impacting billions of lives. In the early 2020s we entered the sharply steepening part of the exponential curve, and the pace of innovation is affecting society like never before. For perspective, the moment you’re reading this is probably closer to the creation of the first superhuman AI than to the release of my last book, 2012’s How to Create a Mind. And you’re probably closer to the Singularity than to the release of my 1999 book The
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I decided I didn't want children at age 14, in 2009. The past 15 years have been continuous validation that my intuition was correct, hahaha.
