''The Spike'' is a 1997 book by

Damien Broderick Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. His science fiction novel ''The Dreaming Dragons'' (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine ...

exploring the future of technology, and in particular the concept of the

technological singularity The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the m ...

. A revised and updated edition was published in 2001 as ''The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies'', New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2001, he pbk. Library of Congress T14.B75 2001.

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