No, sorry - it's an original thought, half baked and poorly researched. Yudkowski's essays, written early in his career, introduced me to the potential of the technological singularity. I've intermittently contemplated what it means while I wait for it to get here.

Kurzweil makes an effective and well reasoned case that it is indeed coming, but his fantastic description of life after uploading is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was more prescient IMO:

Kauffman: Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

Bennell: I don't want any part of it.

Kauffman: You're forgetting something, Miles.

Bennell: What's that?

Kauffman: You have no choice.