Technological rapture …

… The sinister cult of the Singularity (and how it's shaping your future) � The Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Considered as a religion, this is very American. It is structurally similar to the fundamentalists’ belief in the Rapture — the moment when the elect are swept up to Heaven to avoid the ensuing Tribulation — which is also said to be imminent. And, indeed, in their subliterate way, Kurzweil’s books do read like fundamentalist tracts.