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

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

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

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.

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

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