The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.