Interpreting the Singularity

As science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has pointed out, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The gap between today and tomorrow is closing at a staggering rate, while the future continues to become more and more surreal. A perfect example comes from the work of inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, who often talks about a point sometime in the next 50 years when our rate of technological progress begins to approach the infinite—an event he calls "the Singularity." This essentially represents the event horizon of our own technological evolution, beyond which we simply cannot imagine. Is there actually something to the concept of the Singularity, or is it just a sort of mythical Rapture for tech geeks? What are the implications of such exponential advancement of technology to human consciousness? As data becomes more and more free, and therefore more and more ubiquitous, how can the Integral vision help us navigate the "global brain" currently under construction?

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• Singularity
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• Futurism

[prozach805]

that would be gravitational singularity, they're talking about technological singularity

[MaBu888]

What?

[MvPGamingProductions]

Let me get this straight. Scientists want computers to surpass the complexity of the human brain, as they say themselves, this could be a danger to humans so they want us to give ourselves up to human augmentations? Do you know the reason why I don't want small computers controlling a portion of my brain? Computers crash. Case closed.

[GangstalkingRobot]

@trakkaton You WILL be assimilated! Resistance is futile.

[88888FORCE]

GLOBAL BRAIN

Human Consciousness Collective

Currently under construction?

Sept-13-2011--The gap between today and tomorrow is closing at a staggering rate,

While the future continues to become more and more surreal.

In the next 50 years when our rate of technological progress begins to approach the infinite—an event called "the Singularity." This essentially represents the event horizon of our own technological evolution,

The singularity approaches us quickly

and we should embrace it.

[2LegHumanist]

Had me until he started raving on with his post modernist crap.

[Entropy56]

I played Zuma while listening to this. If you just sat and listened, then you will never get it.

[fullmetal515]

The colors are way of illustrating a hypothesis in physics about dimensional vibration frequencies.

[Helioanthrop]

@Mordred86 lol colors he means i beliebe the different colors vibration ov an entity...suchas the indigochildren i asssdume turqoise is the next higher level ovcolorvibrationconsciousness

[Mordred86]

lost me big time when he started talking about colors:)

[trakkaton]

Knock, knock - Who is it? - The Borg.

[trakkaton]

@BloodlessNDizzy

Nanotechnology is applied in the PRESENT.

It is a part of ENGINEERING.

An ant's brain is a topic of NEUROANATOMY.

Get a clue.