The technological singularity and limits to exponential growth
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I'm of the school of thought that everything allowed by physics will be built at some point in time. The only things worth arguing about are when a specific product is likely happen and whether you're going to help make it happen.
More on timelines and growth constraints based on human nature and incompressible human organizational strategies can be found here in a review of Kurzweil's singularity book from 2005:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2005/09/reading-the-sin.p...