“Singularity,” the fusion of human, machine and the communication capacity of the web, may enable a spectacular and fundamental shift in our understanding of human consciousness.

“I am still a big believer in Artificial Intelligence; new software ‘shells’ that surround us as individuals and becomes our interface with the outside world,” says Diamandi. “The Internet will merge into these software shells, serving as a global nervous system interconnecting people to people in the way single cell life-forms grouped into multi-cellular organisms and eventually into an organism as complex as the human body.”