This analysis of the newsweek article is spot on. Lyons is an entertainer and Kurzweil is a prophet. Throughout history, visionaries of the future have been a

This analysis of the newsweek article is spot on. Lyons is an entertainer and Kurzweil is a prophet. Throughout history, visionaries of the future have been attacked. Kurzweil is no exception. These attackers profit because many people choose to disagree and we select opinions that agree with ours. The future Kurzweil describes is coming. The only thing that could stop it is an all out war on technology, but technology itself is used in that war, so it's a bit of a paradox... or I don't know what you'd call it exactly, but the only thing that could defeat the singularity is that which is causing the singularity to ... evolve. It's like we are witnessing evolution in process. like the telescopic evolution scene from Waking Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxX-Z6w3p4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxX-Z6w3p4