What is 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 being]]s (see [[artificial intelligence]]).<ref>Kurzweil, Ray ''The Singularity is Near'' 2006</ref> 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== <references/> ==Other websites== * [https://www.reddit.com/r/Singularity Technological Singularity subreddit] * [http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/the-technological-singularity-and-merging-with-machines The Technological Singularity and Merging with Machines - BigThink.com] {{Existential risk from artificial intelligence}} {{Emerging technologies}} [[Category:Technology]] {{technology-stub}}