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,...
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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the a gravitational singularity, a point of infinite density theorized to be at the center of black holes. different from the technological singularity, though both deal with the concept of approaching infinity.
Of course, being that it's a singularity, we really don't know what's going to happen once it hits. Maybe something good, maybe something bad. Nanotechnology could be bad, it could result in a grey goo scenario.
He did not do any of his own views. He is stating what Kurzweill predict's but as a biology major (Wilber) He certainly gives in to what the technologist's are saying. Many biologist's are criticizing this Singularity because of how they claim the body is not complicated at all.
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Of course, being that it's a singularity, we really don't know what's going to happen once it hits. Maybe something good, maybe something bad. Nanotechnology could be bad, it could result in a grey goo scenario.