Considered the brainchild of futurist Ray Kurzweil, technological singularity (or singularity) is the merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence that will make the future of technology utterly predictable. Sounds kookie, right?
To say that human's are complacent and will settle with what we have now is foolish, as evidenced by Blu-Ray, the IPad, and 3D HDTV's. In the future, Kurzweil believes machines could possess more smarts and abilities than an actual human. Has that already taken place though?
If singularity progresses to the levels that Kurzweil's sublime visions, than I will certainly come to hate it, not embrace it. As of now, I have a hard time knowing that four-and-five year olds are playing on IPhones and laptops, instead of writing in pencil and playing four-square (one of my favorites).
Kurzweil's idea is that human's will build machines more capable than what we are able to accomplish. In turn, those machines will build smarter machines, and those machines will build even smarter machines. Sounds a bit like Terminator 2 (the best one of the series).
If technology progresses at the rate it has been for the previous decade, by the time I am in my 50's (scary thought) the technological landscape will be unpredictable. There will most certainly be flying cars, IPhones will be lame, all music will sound like autotune (T-Pain's "voice"), and Brett Favre will still be playing quarterback.
In all honesty, whatever innovations and revolutions take place, the best thing for anyone to do is embrace it. There have been fad's that have faded into obscurity such as: Napster, overalls, ripped jeans, and the XFL, but technology this accelerated and cutting edge is, for the most part, here to stay. Who knows, maybe flying cars will come true.
