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    <title>Gaia: The Singularity - WTF is the Singularity? - Chapter 1: Singularity (for FREE)</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chapter 1: Singularity (for FREE)</title>
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&lt;p&gt;      Here&amp;#39;s a &lt;a href="http://media.kurzweilai.net/sin/pub/SingularityisNear_Chapter1.pdf"&gt;PDF of Chapter 1 of The Singularity is Near&lt;/a&gt; by Ray Kurzweil. Check it out if you still don&amp;#39;t have the book. In this chapter, Ray gave an overview of the SIx Epochs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Epoch One: Physics and Chemistry&lt;br /&gt;Epoch Two: Biology and DNA&lt;br /&gt;Epoch Three: Brains&lt;br /&gt;Epoch Four: Technology&lt;br /&gt;Epoch Five: The Merger of Human Technology with Human Intelligence&lt;br /&gt;Epoch Six: The Universe Wakes Up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;whoah on Epoch Six!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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