Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.