http://www.simulation-argument.com/ The argument is that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.

"...there is a level of hierarchical control that is being exerted by the human species as a whole. That the destiny of man as a whole is not in the hands of governments and corporations...it is in the hands of a weirdly democratic, amoeboid-like, hyper intelligent super organism which is called everybody. And as we come to terms with this, as we take our place embedded in the body of everybody and information flows more freely, the reality of this informational creature is seen more clearly, it’s an organism, we are having a symbiotic relationship with an organism made of information."

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World-renowned artificial intelligence expert and Google's new Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a 'cybernetic friend,' who knows users better than they know themselves.