Michael Anissimov is one of the interesting characters we discovered in our Singularity research. He had a very interesting post the other day on science getting out of control:

The potential of near-future manufacturing technology is truly colossal. When self-replicating technologies start pulling their own weight financially and then some, an economic boom will start and not stop until the world is a very different place. Making as much of anything we want, limited only by energy and raw materials. More and more scientists and engineers are waking up to this near-future reality.

Please read his entire post. It is very encouraging to see a futurist like Mr. Anissimov focus on the hard questions that technological evolution creates:

When I see people calling me a “Luddite” for worrying about future technological developments, I think one of two things. Either they greatly underestimate the transformative power of the technology they themselves advocate, or they recklessly support scientific research without considering all the consequences. Personally, I think the creation of the first synthetic life form, whether it happens this year or the next, will signify the arrival of a fundamentally different era. An era where mankind taps into the power that has made life the dominant feature on the Earth’s surface today: reprogrammable self-replication at the molecular level.

You can think about that over the weekend.