Dark Æon author @JOEBOTxyz challenges Ray Kurzweil's singularity timeline with the predictions that didn’t come true: "If you read carefully the specifics of The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near, it wasn’t some amazing one-to-one prediction of the future." "The graphs were fancy. The lines kept going up. But he predicted that by now most processing would be done on carbon nanotubes, most people would live within virtual reality, most homes would have a humanoid robot. None of that happened." "Futurism is not an exact science, and there are as many predicted futures as there are fevered egos." "I grew up with all these predictions of apocalypses. If the singularity is the apocalypse, that’s the one that pulled the right lottery number, because all the others have not yet panned out."