Ray Kurzweil’s bestselling 2005 book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, quickly became a cult classic among techno-optimists. The essence of Kurzweil’s argument is that exponentially rapid advances in computing power, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology will converge to a point where human and machine intelligence merge, resulting in a transformative event he popularized as The Singularity. The doubling time of technology has shrunk from centuries to decades to years, and at some point, in most reader’s lifetimes, so Kurzweil posits, that doubling time will be less than a day.