As Somalia inches closer to a calamitous famine, the prospect of utter devastation and colossal loss of human life is once again becoming an imminent reality. The humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating by the day with up to 6.2 million people in need of urgent aid. People across Somalia have been forced to walk hundreds of miles in search of food, water and shelter- with women and children disproportionately affected. Over 300,000 children under the age of five are severely malnourished, with over 200,000 more children at risk of acute malnutrition.

In South Sudan, close to half the population is in dire need of assistance, and things have gotten so bad there that people will literally eat grass if they can find it

Across South Sudan more than one million children are believed to be acutely malnourished and UNICEF have said that if urgent aid does not reach them, many of them will die. "There is no food, we eat anything we can find," one South Sudanese mother told ITV. "We will find grass, we will eat it. That's just the way it us for us now."

Kurzweil said this singularity would create a cybernetic society including humans with computers in their brains and machines smarter than their creators.

"By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence," Kurzweil said. "That leads to computers having human intelligence, our putting them inside our brains, connecting them to the cloud, expanding who we are." "Today, that's not just a future scenario," Kurzweil continued. "It's here, in part, and it's going to accelerate."