Technological singularity

The technological singularity or tech singularity is the idea that a machine or computer, or a group of machines and computers, will one day be smarter than humans.

Because it has not happened yet, nobody really knows what the technological singularity will do, or if it will even happen. Nonetheless, the technological singularity has been a subject in many science fiction works, such as The Terminator, The Matrix, and the Borg in Star Trek. In most depictions of the singularity, machines have consciousness and humans are considered to be useless. The futurist (who studies about the future) and inventor Ray Kurzweil believes the Singularity will happen about the year 2045. The major impetus driving toward the singularity, according to Kurzweil, is that according to Moore's Law, computers are doubling in memory capacity every 18 months. According to Kurzweil, by 2029, computers will be as intelligent as human beings (see artificial intelligence).Kurzweil, Ray The Singularity is Near 2006

Possible effects of such a singularity can include
 Human extinction or enslavement
 Mass unemployment, starvation, etc.
 A post-scarcity system
 Cybernetic immortality
 Mind uploading
Etc.

Related pages
 Cybernetics
 Emerging technologies
 Innovation

References

Other websites
 Technological Singularity subreddit
 The Technological Singularity and Merging with Machines - BigThink.com

Category:Technology