“Some of Silicon Valley’s smartest and wealthiest people have embraced the Singularity…a time, possibly just a couple decades from now, when a superior intelligence will dominate and life will take on an altered form that we can’t predict or comprehend in our current, limited state,” says New York Times reporter Ashlee Vance.

“They believe that technology may be the only way to solve the world’s ills, while also allowing people to seize control of the evolutionary process.”