New Book: The Singularity is Near

Just picked up a new book today by Ray Kurzweil titled, "The Singularity is Near". The jacket doesn't tell much about what the book is about, but the TOC has entries such as the nature of order, the life cycle of a paradigm, fractal designs, reversible computing, subneural models, etc. At the outset, it looks like Kurzweil has put together a compendium of thoughts and ideas on the emergence, or in his words, singularity of human development in the near future. Nanotechnology and models of the brain along with quatum computing essays abound in his book. It should be a good read and am looking forward to it.