Technology: Driving Us To Singularity?

PCQuest : Tech and Trends : Technology: Driving Us To Singularity?: "The 'Singularity' is a hypothetical future point when technology overtakes human intelligence, creating an 'event horizon' beyond which the future is difficult to predict. PCQuest speaks to the man who created the idea: sci-fic author Vernor Vinge, asking him how technologies, including free software, are taking us there"