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Technological Singularity: Coming Technological Singularity
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The Coming Technological Singularity - Vernor Vinge - here is the plain ascii edition of the seminal 1993 article. If this is a bit heavy, try some of the following sites first
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How will the Technological Singularity fare against the coming Stupidity Singularity? Think about it, another fifty years of reality teevee, Fox news, dumb internet crap, crumbling infrastructure, idiotic politicians and genetically modified junk food supply, humans are going to be incapable of even maintaining these so-called "smart" machines.
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Vinge’s ideas on the Singularity date back to the 1980s; he refined his thoughts on it in a 1993 essay called “The Coming Technological Singularity.” But what if the Singularity doesn’t occur? Pressed to come up with alternatives, Vinge is able to construct scenarios where the Singularity fails, three of them in fact, ranging from a return to nuclear confrontation to a ‘golden age’ where a kind of enlightenment spreads tolerance and technology-enriched education throughout the globe.
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The concept was solidified by mathematician and computer scientist Vernor Vinge, who wrote about a rapidly approaching “technological singularity” in an article for Omni magazine in 1983 and in a science fiction novel, Marooned in Realtime, in 1986. Seven years later, Vinge presented a paper, "The Coming Technological Singularity," at a NASA-organized symposium. Vinge wrote:
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Unfortunately, neither the full definition of the technological singularity nor the developmental singularity hypotheses are yet studied in formal academic programs. This intellectual oversight is a state of affairs that FRAC hopes will change in coming years. Nevertheless, there are specialist and generalist
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