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

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

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

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

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.