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

So much technology, so little talent.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

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

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.