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March 12, 2015, 07:47:51 PM

snip - that we would have transcended what we now call human)

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

Or to put it another way -

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."

Written in 1993

https://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html

Pretty much.

(also http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns)