Best reasons why the often discussed Singularity is NOT so far fetched after all | h Magazine

Best reasons why the often discussed Singularity is NOT so far fetched after all | h Magazine: "The Internet has become an extension of the human psyche… What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and human imagination is that we are dealing with the equation: ‘As I imagine, so I become’ — and this is the very essence of magic. -Nevill Drury

Singularities have occurred before. Kevin Kelly's new book What Technology Wants cites the invention of language as an epochal-shifting singularity. Fifty thousand years ago, language changed the operation system of the brain and allowed it to think with purpose and deliberation, says Kelly. Within 1500 generations we took over the planet, according to the book. The book lucidly explains how the world and our understanding of it after language was unfathomable those that came before it."