The Singularity

People who know me know that I consider myself a Singularitarian.  I was first turned on to the idea by Ray Kurzweil, in The Age of Spiritual Machines, and later, in The Singularity is Near.

I came across this link that does a pretty good job summarizing the idea, and also presents a pretty good reason to try to get there as soon as possible:
Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5

I have had it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per day. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. None of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. We can end this.

This reminds me of Dr Aubrey de Grey's plea for everyone to take action now to extend human life.  The Methuselah Foundation has more info about this. 

MPrize-Why Aging?

Because saving lives is the most valuable thing anyone can spend their time doing, and since over 100,000 people die every single day of causes that young people essentially never die of, you'll save more lives by helping to cure aging than in any other way.

It's only a matter of time. Start reading your biology, and make sure you live another 25 years.