ITWorld.com
interviews Vernor Vinge, the modern popularizer of the Singularity
concept.
The Singularity is Vinge's name for the idea that the rate of
technological change will soon exceed the ability of humans to
comprehend. Some view this as a disaster scenario to be avoided and others
view it as a sort of "geek rapture" in which humans and machine merge to
form a
new dominate species. In this latest interview he touches on the
relevance of IBM's Deep Blue, the Internet, genetics, nanotechnology,
and whether or not the 5,000 military robots in Iraq represent the
beginings of a "Terminator scenario". He also predicts future mobile
robots that will be more agile and coordinated than human athletes.
It's always worth noting when talking about the Singularity that some researchers now
suspect that the perception of an exponential curve of technological
progress is really just the result of the way our brains and collective
societies compress historical.
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