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The Singularity is when humans and tech merge into one. The movie will be like What the Bleep Do We Know, part documentary and part story and all crazy.

[Maybe Kurzweil needs to remember that shadowy Francis Bacon’s Utopia never came about either. Ahh, the best laid plans…]

From the film’s page:

So what is the Singularity?

Within a quarter century, nonbiological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence.  It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge. Intelligent nanorobots will be deeply integrated in our bodies, our brains, and our environment, overcoming pollution and poverty, providing vastly extended longevity, full-immersion virtual reality incorporating all of the senses (like “The Matrix”), “experience beaming” (like “Being John Malkovich”),  and vastly enhanced human intelligence.  The result will be an intimate merger between the technology-creating species and the technological evolutionary process it spawned….”