This book is supposed to scare you If reading this doesn't frighten you, then I haven't done my job. The most important thing in this book that I want my friends to take away is how our entire civilization is predicated on accelerating technological change. It means that all technological progress is the backbone of human civilization improving. As the prominent venture capitalist and first investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel says, our entire civilization has grown because of vast improvements in technology. The worlds most respected futurist Ray Kurzweil says, we didn't stay on the ground, we...