Bow To Your Robot Overlords!

Known as The Singularity, a theory exists for the future that is often the core premise behind science fiction novels. Described in Wikipedia; “The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation… of smarter-than-human entities that rapidly accelerate technological progress.” One of the fathers of this theory is Vernor Vinge, just in to his 60’s and for four decades has been writing science fiction with a definite realism to it. In his mind, it is not unimaginable to think that, the future we are currently building is totally unimaginable. It seems plausible,” Vinge says, “that with technology we can, in the fairly near future, create or become creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Events beyond such a singular event are as unimaginable to us as opera is to a flatworm.” “Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence… shortly after, the human era will be ended.”