Cover of The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil’s original wager: exponential curves eventually invade every institution.

The 2005 original: exponential curves eventually invading every institution, computation converging with biology. Read it today as intellectual history — this is the mental model beneath two decades of Silicon Valley’s long-horizon AI optimism, and its fingerprints are on every datacenter announcement.