Something's Going on

Do you think the Singularity is a mainstream idea yet?
I wonder. I am not tuned into television - I haven't had cable since I changed towns about 11 years ago, and there's no over-the-air television where I live, so I don't watch TV news. I just don't have a feeling for it.
I don't recall the Singularity ever being mentioned on a.m. news radio, or on NPR, for that matter.
Do Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner's comments at the Intel Developer Forum last week represent the mainstream? What about the geek-mainstream? And what is the percentage of geeks in the overall population?
I intend to track the acceleration of change through various means. I haven't figured out how, exactly yet, but I did have one idea:
My gmail account today tells me that I have 7081 MB of storage on my account. Two days ago, I had 7074 MB. I have gained 7 MB, or about 3.5 MB per day since then.
If I measure that in a month or a year, will I detect a change in the growth rate of my storage? And if I keep track of the growth, will it show an exponential curve?