Generational Dynamics World View

[David Horn]

(10-26-2019, 07:19 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 26-Oct-2019 World View: The Singularity

(10-26-2019, 08:41 AM)David Horn Wrote: You seem fascinated by the Singularity which, by definition, cannot be contemplated in any reasonable fashion...

I don't know what word you're referring to that includes "cannot be contemplated in any reasonable fashion" in its definition, but Singularity is certainly not that word, since many people have contemplated the Singularity in reasonable fashion.

Give this a moment's thought. Why should something so drastically different be imaginable in any real degree? The best thought exercise I ever heard, (note: it's not mine to claim) made the point perfectly. Get in a Wayback Machine, and travel to Runnymede at the time of the signing of the Magna Carta -- surely an example of advanced thinking for its time. Once there, find someone to harangue about the future, and expound to him or her (most likely, him) about the Internet. For that matter, just get them to understand life in the 21st century. No one in that time would have had a usable benchmark for anything we take for granted. Air conditioning and automobiles would be magic, but the internet -- simply beyond comprehension.

For us, the Singularity is our future "Internet".