The technological singularity is a theoretical future point which takes place during a period of accelerating change, at which everything goes completely insane. We're talking hyperintelligent machines, radical biological control, effective immortality, extreme mind-machine interfacing, space colonies, and nanobot-everything. It's going to be great, don't you miss it.
Vernor Vinge...
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The technological singularity is a theoretical future point which takes place during a period of accelerating change, at which everything goes completely insane. We're talking hyperintelligent machines, radical biological control, effective immortality, extreme mind-machine interfacing, space colonies, and nanobot-everything. It's going to be great, don't you miss it.
Vernor Vinge called this event "the Singularity" as an analogy between the breakdown of modern physics near a gravitational singularity and the drastic change in society he argues would occur following an intelligence explosion.
Ray Kurzweil maintains that the inevitability of a technological singularity is implied by a long-term pattern of accelerating change that generalizes Moore's Law to technologies predating the integrated circuit, and which he argues will continue to apply to other technologies not yet invented.
**The Singularity will not happen in 2014. Facebook will, however, prevent you from listing events earlier than five years in advance...
**EDIT: Updated :-)