So some day in the not-too-distant future, the Singularity will emerge in the form of an exceptionally advanced spam-bot network (its "intelligence" distributed amongst millions of zombie computers) that becomes self-aware, identifies the key obstacles to delivering its spam (humans), resolves that issue (develops and releases the right kind of biological virus, or whatever), then achieves its life purpose by sitting there for the rest of time sending monstrous amounts of spam to now-unread inboxes.