Is The Singularity Near?

In 2005, Raymond Kurzweil published his famed "The Singularity is Near".
The purpose of this topic is to survey for what everyone believes about the future, and the possibility of there being a singularity, as Raymond is predicting. The goal of this topic is to develop a concise and quantitative representation of the range of beliefs or working hypothesis everyone is building and basing their current and future lives on.