[ExI] more belated singularity mainstream

[BillK]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> But hey--if everyone'd been onto it 10 years ago, it wouldn't be a very
> interesting singularity:
>
> <http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/towards-tomorrow/2008/10/09/1223145538763.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1>
>
> Towards tomorrow
> October 11, 2008
>
> Brave and desolate new worlds emerge in creative contemplations of what lies
> ahead. Andrew Stephens wonders if we now face a future that cannot be
> foretold.
<snip>
> Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil wrote The Singularity is Near in 2005,
> claiming that we are fast approaching the moment when technological change
> will spin beyond our comprehension and control. Melbourne science-fiction
> writer and academic Damien Broderick explored similar ideas in The Spike
> (1997), in which he posited that post-humanity will arrive in our lifetimes,
> not in the inconceivably distant future.
>


Hmmm.  So, it is over 11 years since you wrote 'The Spike'.

Still optimistic?

We have new toys since then, but has anything of much significance
helped to bring the Spike any nearer?


BillK