On Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:18:15 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: > > On 16 May 2014 08:29, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> On Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:55:12 PM UTC-4, JohnM wrote: >> >>> Craig: >>> beautiful reply, appreciate your understanding and explanation. >>> H O W E V E R : >>> if we "MIX" pop culture with more 'thought-of' speculation (language?) >>> we get into trouble soon. Popular meanings are ill-defined and many times >>> loose. >>> I try to verify the exact meanings applies >>> >> >> Craig, my Kraxlwerk (PC) stole the half-baked text and mailed it away. >>> I am thankful: the rest would have been silly, anyway. >>> John >>> >> >> Thanks John, >> >> Yeah, I re-posted that one from by blog so it is more pop-friendly than I >> probably would have made it for this list. Applying 'singularity' to the >> growth of technology is pretty weak, I agree. I guess someone decided it >> needed a super-amazing name. >> > > Vernor Vinge. > > He called it a technological singularity because it makes the future > impossible to predict even in a weak sense. This makes it more like a > technological event horizon than a singularity, assuming it occurs (Max > Tegmark seems to be both worried and hopeful that it will). A singularity > is where something comes to an end, in this case human progress (it ends > because it hits the wall of whatever is actually possible, assuming that is > finite, or if not it ends because it goes to infinity). >
Thanks. Yeah, that makes more sense, and I have heard of Vinge, but it still seems like a term which as a meaning that is more of a metaphor than most people would assume. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
