Ftrain, by Paul Ford

The singularity is a’comin’! And these people are a-waitin’. The singularity is, well, here’s what they say: “some 20 to 140 years from now—depending on which evolutionary or systems theorist, computer scientist, technology studies scholar, or futurist you happen to agree with—the rate of self-catalyzing, self-organizing, ever more autonomous (human-independent) technological change in our local environment will undergo a ‘singularity,’ becoming effectively instantaneous from the perspective of current biological humanity.”