Here is a list of the best Singularity books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2006)
- Singularity (1995)
- The Technological Singularity (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series) (2015)
- The Singularity Trap (2018)
- The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse (2018)
- Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory (2018)
- Singularity (Sarah Armstrong Mysteries) (Volume 1) (2017)
- A Naked Singularity: A Novel (2012)
- Singularity Point (2019)
- Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (2011)
- Singularity 1.0 (2019)
- The Singularity Survival Guide: How to Get on the Good Side of Your Future Robot Overlords (2019)
- SINGULARITY (2019)
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2006)
“A pleasure to read.” —The Wall Street JournalOne of CBS News’s Best Fall Books of 2005 Among St Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 One of Amazon.com’s Best Science Books of 2005A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Age of Spiritual Machines&…
Singularity (1995)
Identical twins Barry and Harry Krasner are house-sitting at their great-uncle’s Midwest farm. It’s peaceful at first, but soon they realize there’s something about the farmhouse that makes locals stay far away. The twins are sure that the locked shed out back is their reason why – but what they find there is more shocking than anything they could have imagined.
The Technological Singularity (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series) (2015)
The idea that human history is approaching a “singularity”―that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both―has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century.
The Singularity Trap (2018)
The number one best-selling author of the Bobiverse trilogy returns with a space thriller that poses a provocative question: Does our true destiny lie in ourselves — or in the stars?If it were up to one man and one man alone to protect the entire human race — would you want it to be a down-on-his luck asteroid miner?
The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse (2018)
The world is rapidly decentralizing.
Psyche and Singularity: Jungian Psychology and Holographic String Theory (2018)
“The most original and important contribution to the integration of Jungian psychology and physics since the original collaboration between Jung and Pauli.” Sean Kelly, Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies “Timothy Desmond’s theory that the psyche is a gravitational singularity would drive both Isaac Newton and Sigmund Freud crazy. But any theory that doesn’t is a waste of time.
Singularity (Sarah Armstrong Mysteries) (Volume 1) (2017)
The call comes in on a Friday afternoon, a bizarre double murder in Galveston, in a multimillion-dollar beach house. Local police hold the scene, moving nothing, until Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong arrives. Even crime photos won't do these bloody murders justice. They're like nothing Armstrong has ever encountered as the Ranger's lone criminal profiler.
A Naked Singularity: A Novel (2012)
A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender–one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack–and how his world then slowly devolves.
Singularity Point (2019)
Artificial superintelligence has arrived . . .At the turn of the twenty-second century, Earth’s nations have already colonized the solar system through the use of fusion-driven torchships. The technology curve is now trending toward vertical, allowing mankind to reap the benefits of an explosion of technological innovations. For the first time in history, there is evidence of habitable planets in nearby star systems.
Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (2011)
David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.
Singularity 1.0 (2019)
In January 2029, artificial intelligence, coupled with internet cloud connectivity, has enabled computers to acquire most of the knowledge available to humans.
The Singularity Survival Guide: How to Get on the Good Side of Your Future Robot Overlords (2019)
Are you prepared to meet your future robot overlords? According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we only have until 2045 to prepare for the singularity—the moment AI achieves human-level general intelligence. That’s where The Singularity Survival Guide comes in. How will you greet this new form of higher intelligence? With a simple handshake? And what are you going to do if the AI is evil? How will you fight against it?
SINGULARITY (2019)
I will search in Ontology, Natural Theology, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Astrophysics, Biochemistry, Cosmology, and of course mainly in the logic and reasoning of modern Philosophy.
Best Singularity Books Worth Your Attention
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Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
Author(s): Sean A. Culey
ID: 2348346, Publisher: Matador, Year: 3 Dec 2018, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference
Author(s): Jakub Mácha
ID: 3381357, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
The Coming Singularity: The Rapid Evolution of Human Identity
Author(s): Gary A Freitas
ID: 3537726, Publisher: Austin Macauley, Year: 2022, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to USA Today, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.