A few years ago I had been pretty big on reading up on the Singularity, the magical point in history where technology becomes something so powerful, everything changes. Recently, I had been reading in some magazines about Twitter and in a newspaper about Facebook. With Twitters amazing ability to stream the current thoughts of millions of users together at once, it seems only a step or two before it becomes an interface with a real, god-level hive-mind. Facebook, well that seems like it has a further way to go, but I was reading about how people are still getting reminders on their facebooks of the coming birthdays of friends who have passed away, and it got me thinking that it would be another four or five steps before Facebook, reached this goal, but it looked like it was the beginnings of a digital afterlife. So, this got me back around to thinking about the Singularity, with its god-level computer intelligences, and powerful nanotechnology and free microscopic-level fusion and whatnot. What can you offer about that?