Hmm, I wonder if I pressed some hot button, given the silent disapproval.
I upvoted the grandparent to -1 at first, for that reason. But I reversed this at 0 because I saw you imputed the bird argument to him and he didn't use it (nor would it make sense for him to do so).
Also, I don't know what Othello has to do with Moore's Law.
Here's a great article by Paul Allen about why the singularity won't happen anytime soon. Basically a lot of the things we do are just not amenable to awesome looking exponential graphs.