I missed this when it originally happened, but apparently the IEEE Spectrum was nominated as a National Magazine Award finalist for their June 2008 special issue on the Singularity, mentioned in a recent press release they sent out. This is more proof that writing about the Singularity is journalistic dynamite. The bandwagoning has already begun — the sooner you put out an article about the topic, the easier it will be to brag that you were on top of the story at a relatively early point.

The thing I like about the issue is that the people behind the special issue are very anti-Singularity, as confirmed by the “back story” article and subsequent blog posts on the IEEE blog, but they were forced to talk about it anyway, because it’s such a hot topic right now. You can tell an idea is doing well when people have no choice but to cover it.