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I flicked on my TV one day and heard someone say this: “Science and technology have reached a point where our means are finally catching up with our imagination.”

This statement caught my attention because I’d spent months digging into the Singularity movement. As I wrote in an article this Sunday, believers in the Singularity movement promise a time when a superior intelligence rules, man and machines merge and scientific progress occurs at an astonishing rate. In theory, the believers say, our imaginations can be transposed onto the world through things like genetic engineering, nanotechnology and virtual reality.

The statement I heard comes from a character in the television show “Fringe,” which explores a number of Singularity-like concepts in front of a very mainstream audience. “Fringe” goes up against “Grey’s Anatomy,” “CSI” and “The Office/30 Rock” on the networks’ crucial Thursday nights.

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