I haven't read this book yet, just excerpts, but the concept of singularity in relation to design is a curious thought. How will the availability of these evolving, complex nanotechnologies eventually affect the intimacy of the design process? Will the basic skills of using our hands and bodies to produce objects become moot as technological interface becomes smaller, faster and available to the masses? Digesting these theories is overwhelming, but I think it's interesting based on the quick advancements in technology within my lifetime, and the drastic development that will occur (Moore's law and stuff like that) in the future. It might be a shitty book in Ian's opinion, but some interesting mind blowing topics to discuss.
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Ray Kurweil: interesting character. I read The age of Spiritual Machines when i was in college. "riveting" was the word i used to describe it. Like reading sci-fi but supposedly describing my own future. I was very impressed by his ideas and found his theories very convincing at the time. i had read it a few years after the book was published and a few of his predictions had already been proven. when I was in grad school i petitioned for him to lecture at the school and when i called his assitant she told me that he didnt do on site lectures but rather he could be teleported in 3d to the lecture hall for $40,000.00. I gave up on the idea.
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