In addition to theoretical objections, I think the majoritarian argument is factually wrong. Remember, 'future is here, just not evenly distributed'.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=singularity shows a trend
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?pagewanted=all - this week in NYT. Major MSFT and GOOG involvement.
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/04/transhumanism-has-already-won/
Re: "http://www.google.com/trends?q=singularity shows a trend"
Not much of one - and also, this is a common math term - while:
"Your terms - "technological singularity" - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."
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