There were others, such as John Von Neuman, who talked about a singular event occurring, because he had the idea of technological acceleration and singularity half a century ago.
Anybody have further pointers? I’m only a little surprised because also Norbert Wiener was writing about it, but I’d still know more about the history of the concept that slept for so long.
A Fire Upon the Deep is one of my favorites.
This surprised me a bit:
Anybody have further pointers? I’m only a little surprised because also Norbert Wiener was writing about it, but I’d still know more about the history of the concept that slept for so long.
The wikipedia page on the technological singularity has some background on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity