We're endangered by our own success.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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.

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