I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

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

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

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.