But don't you see that this book was a very shallow? As a piece of work, setting aside the pre-singularity tie-ins, the story was boring and the characters were

But don't you see that this book was a very shallow? As a piece of work, setting aside the pre-singularity tie-ins, the story was boring and the characters were uninterresting. The technology aspects of the story did little to actually explore near-term implementations of emerging tech in little more than glossing ways. There was little original thought in this book and was little more than VV's recent speeches of the last few years.