Life hacking has roots in the group of Bay Area hippies who, in 1968, put together The Whole ... No book or seminar could make a neurotic person serene or turn a shy fellow into a Rotarian-club ...

For example, he wrote the book Hacking Life: Systemized Living and Its Discontents using the classic time-management tip of doing 50-minute chunks of work with 5- to 10-minute breaks in between.

Kurzweil is famous for predicting in his 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near, that by around 2045 technology will advance so rapidly, as it learns to improve itself, that human life will become ...