I recommend just reading the books, they're pretty entertaining (in particular, "Marooned in Realtime"). Has some of the best near-singularity tech I've seen.
Ray Kurzweil claims to have invented the Singularity. Ray Kurzweil is full of shit. Marooned in Realtime came out in 1986. Ray didn’t start talking about this stuff until the mid 1990’s. If anyone invented it, it was Vinge.
He’s retired now but he was a professor of CS and Math at San Diego State.
