] It's not clear to me whether the Singularity is a
] technical belief system or a spiritual one.
]
]
] The Singularity - a notion that's crept into a
] lot of skiffy, and whose most articulate in-genre
] spokesmodel is Vernor Vinge-describes the black hole
] in history that will be created at the moment when human
] intelligence can be digitized. When the speed and scope
] of our cognition is hitched to the price-performance
] curve of microprocessors, our "prog-ress" will double
] every eighteen months, and then every twelve months, and
] then every ten, and eventually, every five seconds.

[ Interesting Cory Doctorow interview w/ Ray Kurzweil... -k]