I’ve seen so many different interpretations of what “the singularity” is: everything from “superintelligent AI” to “when we can live forever”. I just think that Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil will get very disappointed if they expect to live forever. Thick marketing combined with promises of being uploaded into the cloud and living forever.ĭespite the thick marketing, however, I don’t agree the Singularity is “ bad science fiction without science” – I think it’s the future we’re heading towards.

I really think that people who hear about “ the singularity” often get it all wrong.ĭuring the last decade, the Singularity University, founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil, has popularized the Singularity with thick marketing and very expensive admission prices. This polarizing approach annoys the heck out of me: Either people seem to believe we will live forever or everything will stay merely the same. What is quite interesting is that people seem to either drink the Kool-Aid OR being naysayers believing the singularity will never happen. I’ve seen many of these articles over the years. An example was some ago, this article was on the front-page of Version2 (big danish IT media site) – the headline in English: “ Author: Singularity is bad science fiction without science“. The technical singularity, coined by Vernor Vinge and later popularised by Ray Kurzweil, is something that really brings up strong opinions.

Kurzweil the singularity is near