The true meaning of The Singularity

Posted in Science at 11:41 am by David Bradley

The true meaning of The Singularity – The true nature of Ray Kurzweil's “Singularity” is not some army of post-apocalyptic robot overlords stomping and rolling across a nuked cityscape of wind-blasted rubble and skyscraper stumps zapping errant humans with noisy laser beams. It's a world of smug electronic umbrella-stands, digital lawnmowers that unfriend you on Facebook if you pave your garden, and web-enabled sofas that refuse the dust-busting attentions of automated vacuum cleaners…

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