Before it became the province of futurists, the word singularity had significance in both mathematics and the physical sciences. A mathematical singularity is a point at which a function is not “well ...

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You’ve probably heard of a concept known as the Technological Singularity — a nebulous event that’s supposed to happen in the not-too-distant future. Much of the uncertainty surrounding this ...

The end of the world as we know it is near. And that’s a good thing, according to many of the futurists who are predicting the imminent arrival of what’s been called the technological singularity. The ...