= The Coming Convergence =
Stanley Schmidt 2008 Prometheus Books
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About the convergence of technologies to make new technologies, and the "singularity".  Mostly descriptions of existing technologies.
 .p_88 - a useful description of computed tomography. 
 .p126 - SF a vaccine for future shock
 .p136 - Brain imaging - but not resolution or microfunction
 .p138 - Meme, psychohistory, argument from analogy
 .p173 - Nanotechnology - doesn't talk about statistics
  . note that Schroedinger ("What Is Life?") had a clue in 1942
  . if activation energy for a change is small, it will happen fast
  . Life does things in parallel, increasing the activation energy for damaging the ensemble
 .p189 - Waldos, telepresence - no mention of predictive-adaptive telepresence
 .p200 - External copies - no mention of extensions
 .p211 - space elevator, Arnold/Kingsbury spaceport (no mention of stability or energy handling)
 .p225 - Fermi plague: powerful crazed individuals create planet-destroying havoc
 .p232 - Clarke's Law - any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so lazy people will forget how they work