The tipping point science fiction writers have long warned about is technological singularity, when humanity as we know it is eclipsed by artificial intelligence. Some say it's as close as 2040. In clubs and pop videos, it seems closer."
Friday, August 26, 2011
Ghosts and the machines
Ghosts and the machines: "RELAX. There's no cause for alarm right now. There's plenty of bandwidth for everyone, from the barefoot twangers of the back-to-blues'n'roots folk revival to the auto-tuned avatars of the electronic dance-pop frontier. But, as Mick Jagger almost said: war, children, is just a chip away.
The tipping point science fiction writers have long warned about is technological singularity, when humanity as we know it is eclipsed by artificial intelligence. Some say it's as close as 2040. In clubs and pop videos, it seems closer."
The tipping point science fiction writers have long warned about is technological singularity, when humanity as we know it is eclipsed by artificial intelligence. Some say it's as close as 2040. In clubs and pop videos, it seems closer."
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