“The Singularity is not the great vision for society that Lenin had or Milton Friedman might have,” says Andrew Orlowski, a British journalist who has written extensively on techno-utopianism. “It is rich people building a lifeboat and getting off the ship.”
Peter A. Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and a major investor in Facebook, is a Singularity devotee who offers a “Singularity or bust” scenario.
-From In the Singularity Movement, Humans are so Yesterday (NYTimes).
My two cents:
Scientology:Hollywood::Singularity:Silicon Valley.
