Singularity is a term coined by Vernor Vinge, a science fiction writer. The basic premise of the singularity is that at some point in the future, human intelligence will be aided by technology. Moore’s Law predicts that the number of transistors per unit of area doubles every two years. This means that over time the decrease in size of processing power should be exponential, leading futurists to predict that there will be an explosion of knowledge. Below is a video of Ray Kurzweil explaining the singularity:
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