Wired magazine has been a staple of mine for years. A few months back, I was thinking of canceling my subscription because they had gotten a little too superlative in their declarations. But then that J.J. Abrams guest editor issue came out (one of the most amazing issues I’ve ever seen from any magazine, by the way) and I haven’t stopped loving them since (even if Chris Anderson is a plagiarizer of the most ironic kind).

The magazine has also long been a backer of the pro-Kurzweil, go Singularity movement since even before the Bill Joy article, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” (I’m pretty sure the first place I ever heard of the Singularity was in Wired.) But in the last few years, I feel like the stance among the general staff may be changing. And this month they ran a humorous dig at Kurzweil’s Singularity University. Has even Wired adopted an anti-Singularity stance?

Probably not. I think it’s just the fact that Kurzweil and the Singularity are on an upswing in the media and his assumptions are being held out in the full light of day. Maybe Kurzweil is reaching the peak of his own public-attention-exponential-growth curve? As more people start to follow his movement, perhaps there will start to be larger skepticism for it as well. I can only hope.