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

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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.

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