The Singularity is Near - When humans transcend biology by Ray Kurzweil
^that became my new religion.
I have also been reading Michael Ignatieff's books. I recommend Blood and Belonging. It is a look at ethnic nationalism overall, with sections dealing with post-Berlin Wall Germany, Serbia/Croatia, Quebec, Kurdistan, Ukraine, and Northern Ireland. The stories that he told of some of the people he met have been really eye-opening. It was written a couple years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
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