As important as choosing where to work.

Before the Singularity (before any mind can emerge, really) you need reliable neural protocols.

I really think it will happen eventually - religion and science merge under this idea that we are all participants in the mind of god who, until that realization and subsequent calibration, could not awaken.

Like the WoW storyline, basically. So the Earth as of today is like a sleeping god that hasn’t woken up yet, and our society is its dream.