Humanity’s countdown to a technological breaking point now has a startlingly specific number on it: 19 years. One of the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. A translation company developed a metric, ...

The Economic Singularity is a term I coined a decade ago to denote the moment when there are no longer any jobs for the vast majority of humans. In mathematics, the word “singularity” means a point ...

The notion of singularity has fascinated and intrigued for centuries, both for its conceptual richness and its ability to cross disciplines. In physics, it evokes extreme places like black holes, ...

Anyone talking about the “singularity” is using a very specific word. It’s not a term for technology getting awesome. It doesn’t mean people can now generate a Totoro manqué faster than the speed of ...