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Personal Disclosure
I’m often asked (well, not too often, but it has happened), “Why don’t you have more reviews on Amazon?” “Why aren’t you more well-known?” In general, the premise is that, given my limited, but somewhat substantial critical acclaim, why isn’t The Day After the Singularity: UFOs & the Great Technological Quantum Leap more well-known?
My apologies for neglecting the blog for a couple months, but I’ve been working on an exciting new project that will be coming soon, or… coming eventually. It always takes longer than I think…
The Singularity: Once a civilization develops computing it’s on the fast track to a transcendent evolutionary event that has become known as the technological Singularity. Computing power doubles roughly every two years, speeding us faster and faster towards a singular point in time when artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence. Futurists like Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google, say that no one knows what this new civilization will be like, hence the name, borrowed from the point inside a black hole where matter disappears from the Universe. No one knows what happens to it after that. Similarly, futurists believe no one knows what civilization will be like after the Singularity, but they’re wrong.