Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.