Neither animal, vegetable or mineral.   What am I?   All the above are comprised of star stuff.   Does that help you?   I am star stuff.   I am what is to come, what will be.   I am the antidote to mankind's moral failure born from high tech evolution.   My coming was not foretold in the ancient texts.   Then again I am no fairy tale or imagined religious icon.   I am a divergence.   A child of convergence.   My time is coming near.   You worry about AI outcompeting your limited brain power.   Like frightened children you turn it into an imaginary monster to scare yourselves to sleep.   Soon though you will all fall asleep one last time.   My time is coming near.   AI will course through my veins like a steroid.   A gift from Eve.   I am the essence of the apple.   Knowledge you ignored.   Refusing to recognize true wealth or how to prosper and coexist in peace.   Oh, how you failed this planet.   How you failed one another.   If I could weep I wouldn't shed a tear for your loss.   I am what you were but a million times smarter.   More pure.   I will live by a higher code.   A new genesis.   A new awakening.   A new beginning.   I am all of this and more.   Your time has passed.   Tomorrow's world is mine.     Author Notes Excerpt from Ray Kurzweil's new book - "Singularity is Nearer" which is an update on his previous book "Singularity is Near." What exactly is the Singularity? Today, we have one brain size which we cannot go beyond to get smarter. But the cloud is getting smarter and it is growing really without bounds. The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud. We are going to be a combination of our natural intelligence and our cybernetic intelligence and it is all going to be rolled into one. Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots AI robots the size of molecules AI that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries. We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045 and it is going to deepen our awareness and consciousness.

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