17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jeff Gostin says:
tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
On the Singularity, I've already said a fair amount. What _is_ Singularity? It's not a term I'm familiar with.
The notion that the rate of progress is increasing, and the increase in the rate is also increasing, so at some point in the next century more change will occur per hour than occurred in all of human history to, say, now. "The Singularity" is the point at which the world becomes not merely odd but incomprehensable TO US. Presumably those alive at the time will not really notice. Perry