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last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 13, 2008 4:42 am

The idea, widely held by the crowd, that the curve of the total knowledge of humankind will continue to accelerate () until it goes roughly vertical, at which point we will transcend humanity itself. Or something like that.

Here's the essay: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

coordinated some critical discussion among 13 people (in 1998): http://hanson.gmu.edu/vi.html

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Singularity/

http://www.extropy.org/ideas/lextropicon.html

has a weblog about it. http://singularity.manilasites.com/

refers to it heavily in the [Age Of Spiritual Machines]. And has a website to go with it.

[John Smart] has a site http://www.singularitywatch.com/

Also associated with , see http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0151.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/singularity.html

was into this as well, targeting 2012 as the expected date for [Timewave Zero] (based, among other things, on the Mayan calendar).

Others think the whole thing is a crock.

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