Why hasn't the Singularity gone mainstream (yet?) (electric, advance, material)
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I have heard that argument before. Why do you think we have already hit the singularity?
I think the singularity happened in the early 1990s with the creation of the global economy and the World Wide Web. Pop culture and attitudes are also frozen in this time in many ways.
I think the singularity happened in the early 1990s with the creation of the global economy and the World Wide Web. Pop culture and attitudes are also frozen in this time in many ways.
Interesting take on the singularity.
Honestly I still have to stay with the definition that says it is when AI is more intelligent then a unaided human and to keep up we must merge with the technology. That will be by 2030.
Interesting article on what is coming in the next 30 years.
Most adults alive today grew up without the Internet or mobile phones, let alone smartphones and tablets with voice commands and apps for everything. These new technologies have altered our lifestyle in a way few of us could have imagined a few decades ago. But have we reached the end of the line ? What else could turn up that could make our lives so much more different ? Faster computers ? More gadgets ? It is in fact so much more than that. Technologies have embarked on an exponential growth curve and we are just getting started. In 10 years we will look back on our life today and wonder how we could have lived with such primitive technology. The gap will be bigger than between today and the 1980's. Get ready because you are in for a rough ride.
This is interesting and will help with wearable tech and allow computers to get even smaller.
This is from PHYS.ORG:
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego are asking what might be possible if semiconductor materials were flexible and stretchable without sacrificing electronic function?
Today's flexible electronics are already enabling a new generation of wearable sensors and other mobile electronic devices. But these flexible electronics, in which very thin semiconductor materials are applied to a thin, flexible substrate in wavy patterns and then applied to a deformable surface such as skin or fabric, are still built around hard composite materials that limit their elasticity.
Writing in the journal Chemistry of Materials, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering professor Darren Lipomi reports on several new discoveries by his team that could lead to electronics that are "molecularly stretchable."
One thing I have noticed is ever since the movie Transcendence people have been posting a lot more about the future of technology. Perhaps its just a coincidence but honestly I do not think so and is just proof that the singularity is now main stream.
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