Ultimately, the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence. This is the destiny of the universe. - Raymond Kurzweil

What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over.

Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.

It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century.