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technology singularity
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technology singularity
The term "singularity" is used in many disciplines to refer to the occurrence of a major event. From a technology perspective, it refers to a point in the future where computers advance so much that people no longer are the source of great invention. At that point, machines will be responsible for creating the most important, new breakthroughs with minimal, or without, human input.

The concept has been touted by technology theorists for decades but was brought to the forefront in Ray Kurzweil's best selling book "The Singularity Is Near" in 2005. See AI and singularitarian.


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Some futurists describe technological singularity as a time when super-intelligent artificial life will arise, take over and accelerate its power and smarts exponentially.
The Singularity If catastrophe means a sudden revolution or overturning, then ideas of the technological Singularity have been one of the most influential forms of contemporary catastrophism.
One increasingly popular vision of that rapidly accelerating progress is called the Technological Singularity (or, sometimes, just the Singularity)--a concept evoked not just in science fiction novels by the likes of Charles Stross and Bruce Sterling but in works of speculative nonfiction, such as the futurist Ray Kurzweil's popular 2005 book The Singularity Is Near.
 
 
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