Cognitive Singularity: something very curious is happening

Search Options	close
Search the following clips: All Clips

news science politics food economy art
technology health internet religion psychology

Sign Up Install Learn More Login


	Cognitive Singularity: something very curious is happening

abailart

12-7-2007 3:09 PM

787 views

tags:

technological acceleration, singularity, cognitive singularity

2 Comments |

Add a Comment

12-7-2007 3:11 PM

abailart

Technological innovation appears to be a universally permitted developmental process, one largely independent of wars, enlightenments, reformations, inquisitions, crusades, subjugations, and other aspects of our fluctuating human ideological, cultural, and economic history. As Robert Wright has observed (Nonzero, 2001), technological innovation is something we choose, often unconsciously, regardless of who is in on the throne or in the sanctuary, because it has strong "non-zero sum" effects on human aspirations.

12-9-2007 6:27 AM

Joseph48

No shit?

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from December 7, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d55ce31d-f4e5-4c5a-812a-d0508222b04f/004CAC11-FE9C-450D-81CC-051935EF23AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.accelerationwatch.com/punctuatedequilibrium.html" href="http://www.accelerationwatch.com/punctuatedequilibrium.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.accelerationwatch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.accelerationwatch.com/punctuatedequilibrium.html"> 
          in terms of information flows and technological capacity, not human 
          observation, technological evolutionary development has run exponentially 
          faster every year forward. This has been measured in all manner of informetrics. 
          The more complex the network becomes, the more this acceleration simply 
          dives "under the hood," (think of a modern car engine, stunningly 
          complex) and becomes unseen to the average person. We call this a "cognitive 
          singularity,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.accelerationwatch.com/punctuatedequilibrium.html"><P align="left">Many careful thinkers now suspect that 
        our increasingly self-directing and self-stabilizing technological and 
        computational systems will continue to speed up for the forseeable future, 
        apparently in the same manner that general developmental change has done 
        for the last six billion years, grossly, for the entire second half, of 
        universal history. Something very curious, and potentially universally 
        significant, is going on. </p> <P></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/004CAC11-FE9C-450D-81CC-051935EF23AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips