Maybe we should think less about singularity and more about how augmentation technology will change the human condition in a slow and gradual manner.
I recently gave a talk at Singularity University about the Future of Psychiatry, you can watch the video here.
A recent article in the New York Times about Singularity University got me thinking about how mainstream religions may be missing a major opportunity to become more progressive and relevant in the modern age.
He is also funding the Singularity Institute, one of a nexus of Californian zealots aiming to bring about "the Singularity": a semi-mythical point where computer intelligence advances at such a rate that it leaves ordinary non-artificial human intelligence for dust.
In a sense I'm asking what if the Multiplayer Singularity is actually about social co-ordination around sport-like activities rather than far-off dreams about everyone creating their own group online culture dream world?
Read more about singularity over at Motherboard.
Diamandis: I don't write about singularity in this book, or my previous book, "Abundance".
Jacqueline and I are already formatting a new filmcalled Oneness; about singularity, and how man and machine become one.
One that's out right now is Ray Kurzweil, you know the man that wrote about singularity and the second one will be with Stan Lee who's the founder of Marvel Comics.
Although he has written extensively about the singularity as a scientific concept, he is humble about laying intellectual claim to it.
