Garside-Blur Lines
It's fascinating that the "singularity" is predicted to occur sometime in the next 30 years, which hopefully means I'm still around to see it. The funding and ownership of the cutting edge research to get us there is now in the hands of these gigantic corporations. I wonder what will happen once one of these companies reaches the breakthrough that creates the singularity. How will they use it, and who will have access to this technology? Will we even know about it?
In the article, a researcher already argues that we've arrived at the singularity. That we are already connected to networks and machines so much, that we've arrived without really noticing. Truly the concept of being connected to networks like we are every day was a far-out concept not too long ago, but is it really the "singularity?"
Technology is only going to become more central to our lives. We already make privacy and data sacrifices while using what we have today. How much will we have to sacrifice in the future? What else is there to give to use future technologies? In 30 years or less (I'll probably make it at this rate), I guess I'll know.
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