> From: Joshua Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >All roads lead through the Singularity it would seem. And I Just read > >'does the future need us". > > Indeed. An a perhaps silly question: since the Singularity is the point
> where, from our vantage point, the future is no longer comprehensible, can > you see it coming as you approach it, or do you never quite reach it, > although "objectively" (from the vantage point of 2002) you've gone past? > > Predictions for a Singularity seem to be converging around 2050 +/- 10 > years. I'm cautiously optimistic that I will live to see it (I'll be a mere > 77 in 2050). In any case, this will be a fun half-a-century. :) A.I. and technology will begin to replace jobs at an accelerated rate, as the technological 'spike' causes technology to be able to replace more jobs than people can find employment, and job requirements will go up. This will cause massive unemployment, as most people are not able to transition fast enough / learn higher job skills fast enough. Technology will put the squeeze on _all_ types of employment high and low. Since A.I.'s and Technology will be 'better' workers, and considerably cheaper, most employers will replace most of their employee's with the 'more productive' technologies. Somewhere in there economic collapse is bound to occur, which may slow the coming of the singularity but not stop it. The way I see it, when 98% of all jobs have been replaced with technology, that will the 'event horizon'. I'll place my bets on 2035.
