Getting serious about the Singularity - San Jose Mercury News

O'Brien: Getting serious about the Singularity - San Jose Mercury News: "It can be easy to dismiss Singularity, an intellectual movement embraced by some of Silicon Valley's most celebrated thinkers, because of its more fantastic elements -- humans merging with machines, thousand-year life spans and predictions of a robot war that will wipe out humanity within a few decades. But that misses the point at the heart of Singularity: The pace of change in technology and science is accelerating so rapidly that the world is completely unprepared to deal with the consequences. And the message from the people who champion Singularity: We need to prepare."