Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us a uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy - since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids, which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.
#The_Singularity_is_Nearer: When we merge with AI - Ray_Kurzweil - #Review
The book starts with “where we stand” in terms of epochs with the present one being a merger of bio-science with technology. The idea th...
