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 voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.