Jill from Tachyon Books sez, "Is the Rapture of the Nerds just around the corner? Or is the Vingean posthuman technological Singularity the biggest myth since Y2K? You know—and you can prove it in verse. Post or email (tachyon@tachyonpublications.com) Tachyon a haiku that is either pro- (it's totally gonna happen) or con- (as if!) Singularity. There will be two winners, one for each argument. In addition to getting a signed copy of Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology, attendees at Chicon 7, the World Science Fiction Convention, will be treated to A FREE LUNCH with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel."

  • petertrepan

    Writing in haiku?
    Only a nerd would do that.
    I am not… oh no!

    • chenille

      Once an ancient art
      practiced by the Japanese,
      now just geeky jokes.

      …I notice all the haikus here and not there, so on topic:

      A new myth for those
      who don’t see god in our past
      so search our future.

      • petertrepan

        Oo! I like that one. Here’s my actual entry:

        Singularity
        Recedes as we approach it
        Like the horizon

        (No singularity)

  • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

    Sentient Machine
    Structural limits to growth
    OOM killer.

  • Richard Lack

    It’s happening now
    Like slowly boiling a frog
    We just can’t feel it

  • Yacko

    Machine code haiku?
    Robots achieve satori?
    End of universe!

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

    10110
    0111011
    11001

    • http://twitter.com/smknghrtdesigns SmokingHeartDesigns

      Hike!

  • http://twitter.com/shoshin2000 David Andrews

    I am ONE
    with the bytes, 
    power down please

  • http://twitter.com/KatCountiss Katarina Countiss

    Remember, Human?
    That thing that you cherish most?
    That time is finite?

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    Brain is not magic.
    One summer’s day we’ll figure it out.
    I’m set to upload.

  • l337n00b

    In the present day
    No one designs computers
    Without computers

  • http://www.facebook.com/thesarahshow Sarah Zucker

    Compute-organism
    We transcend biology
    Time for the Long Now

  • GordonM

    Singularity?
    It’s Millenialism
    Superstitous crap

  • amuseamuse

    Happened years ago

    Didn’t you get the invite?

    Bee-Borp Zero One

  • ohaitch

    This is hard to explain
    In one-forty characters
    Read lesswrong dot com

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1066051153 Kip Silverman

    all matter is us
    universal silver mesh
    thoughts are our fabric