It amazes me that smart people still take the singularity seriously. All indications are that we're facing a mass die-off of a previously inconceivable scale due to either energy pressures, self-inflicted environmental hazards, or a combination of both, within the lifetimes of people now alive—not some sudden Rapture into technosuperparadise.

If the singularity does happen, we should just be happy that we dodged the bullet, regardless of the form "human nature" (whatever that means) takes in the brave new whatnot.