People just are blind to how the world works, and people who know better are able to exploit that. I'm saying I hope people wake up and learn the lesson that there are natural laws that can't be broken without consequence.. The singularity is important because of the exponential acceleration of progress. AI will someday become far smarter than us, and it will happen very quickly. Just imagine what one could do, feeding a superintelligent AI big data and adding artificial stimuli.. Prediction becomes trivial, but then so does controlling the future.