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.

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

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

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.