Karl Marx knew the future. Not suspected it. Knew it. The revolution was inevitable, and history had a timetable.

Silicon Valley talks the same way now.

Technology has a direction, the exponential is its engine, and the singularity is its destination. You can slow the train, they say, but you cannot stop it.

I spent seventeen years and 300+ interviews taking that story seriously. I was a believer. In 2006 it blew my mind, and I built half a life on it.

Today I am the skeptic. And I have finally written down exactly why I turned.

Because when you strip the singularity down to its engine, it is not a forecast at all. It is a religion, and I can show you the receipts, using Ray Kurzweil’s own diagram to do it.

This is not an attack from the outside. It is a confession from someone who used to preach it.

My new piece makes the case, and offers what I think comes next. Its battle cry is one word, and it is not Logic.

Tell me where I’m wrong. [ https://snglrty.co/3Uob5Q9](https://snglrty.co/3Uob5Q9)

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Is the singularity a religion? Silicon Valley preaches AI as destiny. But the future is a story, not a prophecy. Its battle cry is BIOLogic, not Logic.