I couldn't agree more. The benefit of having an institute like The Singularity Institute will become more and more evident as the pace of change increases in the 2010s, 2020s, and beyond. The think the singularity will be just as massive and transformative as agriculture... or even the World Wide Web. I just went to see Kurweil speak in Toronto and this was one of my favourite quotes from him: "Its amazing how quickly people adapt to things that they had thought were impossible when they were first told about it. Then they continue to act as if nothing has changed.” I think that rings true for humanity's response to the internet at the moment. We've lived through an "agriculture types massive" change with the development of the internet. Its mind boggling... and Kurzweil predicted everything about it to pretty much the exact year. In retrospect that is truly amazing.