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Become a Machine & Live Forever!

Revisado: 02-19-12

What did you love best about The Singularity Is Near?

Imaginative and Intelligent, if a bit quirky.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

I have no idea

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, but that would be pretty rare for me.

Any additional comments?

This is a work written by an inventor of considerable genius who is obsessed with resurrecting his dead father, after which they would live happily ever after - literally. Mr. Kurzwiel believes in the amalgamation of human beings with super-intelligent (and of course immortal) computing machines, which he claims will occur by approximately mid-twentieth century. He posits a rather fascinating and unorthodox

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Misery Loves Company or Mouse Meets Shark

Revisado: 02-19-12

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

someone stranded on a desert island

What do you think your next listen will be?

silence

Did Greg Itzin do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

luck, I suppose

What character would you cut from The Language of Life?

myself

Any additional comments?

If Audible were a mouse trap this selection would be cheese. Unfortunately, the sample manages to showcase the only portion of the book of any interest. Besides that, the book is a seemingly endlss procession of tear-jerking anecdotes about countless persons who have suffered terribly from the mischance of mutating genes. They read,

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Ham & Swiss Cheese on Wry

Revisado: 02-19-12

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

real knowledge

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Deutsch does exhibit a panoramic knowledge of various aspects of history, philosophy, myth, etc.; however, his grasp is quite flawed - full of holes, as it were. For example, he locates the roots of science in vague philosophical currents flowing through the the

Which scene was your favorite?

How does a

Any additional comments?

Unless you have just arrived in our time from the fifteenth century, or emerged out of a worm-hole in space-time from an intellectually starved parallel universe, you should avoid buying this largely worthless, mediocre compendium of self-indulgent frippery. And even if you have, you could easily find more profitable ways of wasting your time.

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