A review by whiskeytown
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

4.0

Pretty good. This covered a broad range of aspects of artificial intelligence but also went deep in each area to explore how it might be achieved and predicting timelines based on the accelerating rate of progress and what is currently on the horizon.

He touches on the Drake equation / Fermi paradox, and devotes a chapter at the end to exploring the various counterarguments to his vision of the future.