In this essay I reflect critically on one of the most controversial hypotheses of transhumanism, “the singularity”, and its representation in Luc Besson’s 2014 film Lucy. When considering transhumanism it is all too easy to get carried away and mistake its imaginative theoretical speculations for possible worlds and technologies. Drawing on established transhumanist opinion, from Nick Bostrom to Frank J. Tipler, my aim is to question transhumanism’s outlandish claims and predictions, which are wishful thinking at best and, at worst, a symptom of technology fetishism.