Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

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

We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

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