The technological singularity - inevitable?

[Purple Rabbit]

Ok, there are some elements in it that sound probable. But considering it is all in the future which up till now has very poorly been anticipated by mankind so far, why make it into a religion? Like if there's no god why not become gods ourselves. Is this the Platonic mental virus going haywire again? As long as our immunity against that virus which has brought us nationalism, fascism, communism, theistic fundamentalism and much more is still low, I prefer my two feet on the ground above futuristic flatulence and remain very suspicious of certain signs of fanatism that generally precede war and destruction.

How on earth is a futurists theory a religion?

Like the dogma that goes with it and fries the brain likke that of Kurzweil.

The future has been poorly anticipated because there hadn't been nearly enough time spent plotting technological growth, now we can see a number of probable paths depending on certain failures and achievements.

Bullshit, extrapolating some 60.000 years of history of our species, the world will probably be dominated by warfare. There "hadn't been nearly enough time spent plotting technological growth". Don't kid yourself that the gadgets will help us out. That is a modern but not very realistic thought. Do you think that the majority of the world that has no access to this will simply stand by. That's naive. The only plotting of growth that you do that way is in the gadget design room. The real world is somewhere out there you know.

Nobody is saying this is going to happen, or even that it is likely,

Could have fooled some innocent bystanders...

..but it is an interesting thing to contemplate,

like in a RPG??

a situation that could fundamentally change the entire meaning of our lives and the future of our species as well as what it means to be human, and the realization of this scenario is in no way impossible,

Some 25 years back that is what we all thought....about the nuclear arms race.

in fact it is in part inevitable.

Yeah, and you know which part.

As for your assertion that speculating the future is in any way linked to poisonous ideologies, fascism and fanaticism, frankly you're talking shit.

Was the Third Reich not speculating about the future? Pol Pot? All these grand designs, these plans that solve all peoples problems in one stroke once and for all, they all ended in the same way. This is just the next detergent washing whiter than white. But please do speculate. I love it.