They talked about the convergence, the “singularity,” but they didn’t see themselves existing in a time after the moment passed.

At first, we wrote tales about gods and science fiction stories about automatons, robots and imagined some perfect/dystopian future in which we interacted with artificial beings.

Then, as time collected in history books, we lost track of the changes.

Our toys became more sentient than ourselves.

Our friends turned into cyborgs without us noticing.

We augmented our reality so slowly that we missed when we no longer depended solely on our memories and person-to-person storytelling to describe our worlds, the reality around us.

In a flash, cave drawings, hieroglyphics, books, computers and ubiquitous bioelectronic network technology became part of our lives.

It was one small step forward for the solar system, transforming a single species into a management system for one planet that expanded on to other planets and eventually beyond the edges of the solar system itself.

We thought we were in control.

Little did we know the convergence, the “singularity,” happened millennia ago.

We, the current seven billion, are a tiny snapshot of the post-convergence generation.

Singularity is an antique term no longer applicable.

It is time to get ahead of ourselves and see what we’ve really become.

Look back 1000 years from now, or even just a few hundred…

…understand why so many of us appeared weak, soft, spoiled and easily hypnotised by our well-developed self-hypnosis techniques handed to us by generations of ancestors slowly coalescing via mass hypnosis.

We will talk about the present-viewed-from-the-future tomorrow.

Tonight, sleep well.  Get some rest.  Let your dreams comfort you.

Then, when most of you are fully awake, we will describe the future where we no longer have to fear ourselves or each other anymore.

G’night!