By 2009, Computers Will Disappear.

The Fate Of The Universe Is A Decision Yet To Be Made, One Which We Will Intelligently Consider When The Time Is Right.

Our Intuition About The Future Is Linear. But The Reality Of Information Technology Is Exponential, And That Makes A Profound Difference. If I Take 30 Steps Linearly, I Get To 30. If I Take 30 Steps Exponentially, I Get To A Billion.

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.

By The Time Of The Singularity, There Won't Be A Distinction Between Humans And Technology. This Is Not Because Humans Will Have Become What We Think Of As Machines Today, But Rather Machines Will Have Progressed To Be Like Humans And Beyond. Technology Will Be The Metaphorical Opposable Thumb That Enables Our Next Step In Evolution.

We Have The Means Right Now To Live Long Enough To Live Forever. Existing Knowledge Can Be Aggressively Applied To Dramatically Slow Down Aging Processes So We Can Still Be In Vital Health When The More Radical Life-extending Therapies From Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Become Available. But Most Baby Boomers Won't Make It Because They Are Unaware Of The Accelerating Aging Process In Their Bodies And The Opportunity To Intervene.