Defined
by Vernor Vinge as the "postulated point or short period in our future
when our self-guided evolutionary development accelerates enormously (powered by nanotechnology, neuroscience, AI, and perhaps
uploading)
so that nothing beyond that time can reliably be conceived. ...a future time
when societal, scientific and economic change is so fast we cannot even
imagine what will happen from our present perspective, and when humanity will
become posthumanity." Another definition is the singular time when technological
development will be at its fastest. A grand
evolutionary leap.
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