My introduction to Kurzweil was this lecture he gave at MIT in 2005: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/327/ http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/327/ I then read The Sin

My introduction to Kurzweil was this lecture he gave at MIT in 2005: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/327/ http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/327/ I then read The Singularity is Near. I tend to agree more with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Anissimov than Kurzweil about this stuff, but the video above is still worth watching (much much better than his TED video, which was too short to allow him to make his main points).