The coming Singularity… the threshold where we will essentially surpass all our current restrictions and embark on an uncertain future. For many, its something to be feared, while for others, its something regularly fantasized about. On the one hand, it could mean a future where things like shortages, scarcity, disease, hunger and even death are […]
The Singularity: The End of Sci-Fi?
by storiesbywilliams on March 7, 2013 in Sci-Fi, Technology, History, Science, Ideas and tagged science fiction, Sci-Fi, AI, technological singularity, nanomachines, cybernetics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, ray kurzweil, vernor vinge, future tech, implants, quantum computing, bionics, John von Neumann, prosthetics, telepathy, technological change and progress, accelerating progress, law of accelerating returns, industrial revolution, old world, new world, paleolithic revolution, neolithic revolution, homo neanderthalensis, denisovans, homo sapiens, hominids, future timeline
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