Singularity Regardless
I suspect ferrouswheel will have already heard this first hand, but Wired points out James Miller's comments that whether The Singularity happens or not, it will change our world Long before there is a singularity, people will come to expect it... If you think there will be a machine-driven future then your top priority is to survive long enough to make it to the singularity
At the same place Marshall Brain gives us more reasons to push for a universal basic income.
Then there are pretty pictures of brains to look at, and data being stored in the nucleus of atoms, and flying plasmonic lenses. Hat-tip to ex-colleague Chris.
Question is, has anyone (other than perhaps John Brunner) done explicitly "pre-Singularity" fiction yet, focussed on what the approach to the singularity is like, being uninterested in the event itself, or whether it even happens? Seems an interesting time.
Actually I noticed recently that Brunner's Jagged Orbit is basically the plot from Terminator done many years earlier and in a low-key, essentially British, way. I wonder if he got a credit in the movie? Or of he would have even wanted one. Maybe he would have felt like Alan Moore about V.
At the same place Marshall Brain gives us more reasons to push for a universal basic income.
Then there are pretty pictures of brains to look at, and data being stored in the nucleus of atoms, and flying plasmonic lenses. Hat-tip to ex-colleague Chris.
Question is, has anyone (other than perhaps John Brunner) done explicitly "pre-Singularity" fiction yet, focussed on what the approach to the singularity is like, being uninterested in the event itself, or whether it even happens? Seems an interesting time.
Actually I noticed recently that Brunner's Jagged Orbit is basically the plot from Terminator done many years earlier and in a low-key, essentially British, way. I wonder if he got a credit in the movie? Or of he would have even wanted one. Maybe he would have felt like Alan Moore about V.