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The Singularity Denotes An Event That Will Take Place In The Material World, The Inevitable Next Step In The Evolutionary Process That Started With Biological Evolution And Has Extended Through Human-directed Technological Evolution. However, It Is Precisely In The World Of Matter And Energy That We Encounter Transcendence, A Principal Connotation Of What People Refer To As Spirituality.

By 2010 Computers Will Disappear. They'll Be So Small, They'll Be Embedded In Our Clothing, In Our Environment. Images Will Be Written Directly To Our Retina, Providing Full-immersion Virtual Reality, Augmented Real Reality. We'll Be Interacting With Virtual Personalities.

I Do Have To Pick My Priorities. Nobody Can Do Everything.

By The 2030s, The Nonbiological Portion Of Our Intelligence Will Predominate.

When I Was A Student At Mit, We All Shared One Computer And It Took Up A Whole Building. The Computer In Your Cell Phone Today Is A Million Times Cheaper And A Thousand Times More Powerful. What Now Fits In Your Pocket 25 Years From Now Will Fit Into A Blood Cell And Will Again Be Millions Of Times More Cost Effective.