I haven't been an LW user or a transhumanist for very long, in the grand scheme of things. Would somebody who has care to answer: Are there more of these articles now than there were 5 or 10 years ago? Is singularitarianism gaining traction in the mainstream, or does it just look like that to me because I didn't get links in the past?
I got interested in transhumanism around 1997, began following Kurzweil around the time he published The age of spiritual machines (before he started using the "singularity brand" coined by Vinge and turned into a movement by Eliezer), and have been following Eliezer since 2002-ish, and I agree that there has been much more than normal on the subject in the mainstream media in the last three to six months.
If there was a watershed moment, I'd suggest Watson winning at Jeopardy, but it appeared to be happening prior to that as well. My guess is th...
A standard pop-news article on the singularity, focus on Kurzweil
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/03/23/134762846/who-is-afraid-of-the-singularity?sc=fb&cc=fp