Singularity: A WikiFocus Book details the Basic concepts, History of the idea, Intelligence explosion, Accelerating change, Criticism, in popular culture and impact of Singularity.
Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than human intelligence. Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to omprehend, the occurrence of technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which the future becomes difficult to understand or predict.
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