http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkW353QkxU&feature=share&list=UUiL3S6IS15fYdcNS8HOn2cw This video maps out Kurzweil's SIX EPOCHS OF EVOLUTION showing the exponential progression in the way the universe stores and processes information... what we see is a bootstrapping recursive complexification leading us towards some kind of intelligence singularity.