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.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.