The Singularity. That exciting future moment drawing all too near when artificial intelligence finally surpasses the human variety, leading to an unimaginable Matrix-like universe of virtual reality, immortality, and….

Bor-ing. We’ve all heard that before. What about some new ideas?

Currently a group of “cranky futurists” is collaborating on a hilarious Google Docs presentation that lays out 30 or 40 just-as-plausible alternatives to the Singularity. Some favorites:

THE GROUPONULARITY In which aggregate consumer purchasing power + pricing algorithms +

applied captology, allows your mother (working in concert with everyone else’s mother) to reduce the price of 99% of mainstream consumer goods to ~0. The global economy is replaced by something almost equally improbable. Unfortunately, it’s composed entirely of Jet-Ski adventure days, bread makers, and underwhelming restaurant meals. —@justinpickard

THE HILARULARITY In which LOLSec, an angry cult of unemployed programmers, initiates a self-replicating bot attack that manages to delete all non-comedy content on the public Internet and replaces it with LOLs.

And we laughed and laughed forever…–@changeist