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Singularity

Looking at technological singularities in our past & future

By / 11 Comments / 5 July 2018

Summary:  It becomes increasingly clear that the rate of technological progress might accelerate in the coming years, taking us to an unknown world. Here we look at singularities past and future to help chart a course ahead, avoiding the dangers and seizing the benefits. This is a revised version of a post from 2007, one …

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Good news: The Singularity is coming (again)

By / 26 Comments / 3 December 2017

History tends to look better over longer time horizons. For example, consider one bit of good news: the Singularity is coming. This mathematical concept came to the public’s attention from Vernor Vinge’s book Marooned in Real Time, describing a wondrous future in which the rate of technological progress accelerates – eventually going vertical — after …

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