Wil McCarthy is a very interesting science fiction writer. I liked very
much his novel Bloom, and I have already saved Lost in Transmission and
Hacking Matter (details in his article) in my Amazon shopping cart. His
views on the forthcoming (or not?) Singularity sre similar to my own:
"And while the world on the other side of that event may look very
different from the world of today, my personal prediction is that <span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">we'll still see ourselves in it, with habits and motives largely unchanged</span>.
The desire for comfort, for wealth, for entertainment and novelty and
pleasure... these things will never go away. We'll just be richer, more
powerful and wiser for our troubles. And what, exactly, is wrong with
that?"<br><a href="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue415/labnotes.html">http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue415/labnotes.html</a>