You want to borrow someone else's copy
"The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology" is Ray Kurzweil's new tome on exponential rate of human technological progress and speculation on the nature of biological and non-biological intelligence "post-singularity." As a technophile, avowed futurist, and longtime fan of post-singularity science fiction, I gotta say this book is brilliant.
Only problem is, its sitting on the shelf in my bathroom, and I'm reading it at a constant rate of two pages per sitting. The book weighs in at 650 dense pages. My predicament is summed up in the following diagram:
