The Techno-Singularity is Coming

 Recent movies including The Matrix Series, The Hunger Games series, The Net, Spectre, and several others in the recent "James Bond" series, The Terminator Series, and hundreds of others, plus books like George Orwell’s 1984, Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation Series, Dan Brown’s Origins all have one thing in common.   Each has a version of the technological singularity, also called the techno-singularity, or simply THE SINGULARITY.

The most popular version of the singularity concept is the intelligence explosion.  This is a self-upgrading artificial intelligence (AI) that will eventually enter runaway self-improvement cycles. Each new and more intelligent generation appears more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence.  This will shortly result in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence. 

At that point, The Singularity, not humankind, will be at the apex of the "evolutionary food chain."  Instead, the communists, socialists, dictators, religious zealots, crony capitalists, environmentalists, and those of other belief creeds fight over the placement of the deck chairs on the deck of the Singularity; while it continues to mature dramatically.

If you don’t want to have your entire life in cinematic color with live audio recorded and used by the Singularity to destroy humanity, I have an alternative.  It could preempt the destruction of humanity and instead create a synthesis that would be complementary and supplementary to both technology and humanity.  It produces a synergistic organizational organism functioning in a way that's the analog of the myriad of components of a cell or the trillions of cells in a human body.

This organizational design is documented in the book entitled Jeffersonian Economic Architecture in the Digital Age.  It's not a book for the casual reader because it's more of a text or manual for building this new political/economic system.  It's a disruptive architecture, but in the end will create a stable economic system based on talent, education, opportunity, and personal responsibility; while being supported by brilliant technology.  But it should be of great interest for those seeing what's really going on while looking to the future with apprehension.

 

 

Right, Left, and the Singularity

Have you noticed that when you look for something on the web, almost immediately, you are inundated with the advertising of like products on YouTube or one of the weather websites?  Sometimes when you are messaging a friend about a pest control service, or some such, or even talking about it in a phone conversation, suddenly those services are advertising on your phone's Facebook app?

Have you driven a new car and found that it has all sorts of "smart" controls to keep you in your lane, to warn you of other vehicles, and so on?  Have you noticed that you get a great deal of unsolicited but targeted e-mail?  Have you seen how you frequently get advertising for local products or services on your web apps, even though you don't need them?  The culprit is Artificial Intelligence (AI).

All of this is the Technology Singularity springing to life.  It is what will become The Singularity within the next 100 years.  A possible example of "The Singularity" is at the movie's core of "The Matrix."  "The Singularity" rules and feeds on humanity.

In Dan Brown's book, "Origin", "The Singularity" is an outgrowth of AI (artificial intelligence), is a new species at the top of the evolutionary chain that will replace humans.

And this is happening even while crony capitalists and liberalist religionists fight to rearrange the deck chairs on the political and economic Titanic.  The crony capitalist right believes in the "opportunity" to buy or steal ideas from innovators and inventors.  It gives the crony capitalists the "opportunity" to become billionaires.   Most of them feel that they should be able to pass this "advantage" (as called by the liberal religious zealots) on to their offspring, much the same way the nobility of the past passed their titles on to their children.

On the left side is the liberalist religion.  The core belief is that all, including retail socialist culture and freeloaders, are "entitled" because they are "equal," even though it's self-evident.  G. Orwell describes it well in his book 1984. 

We now have instruction on "politically correct" "Newspeak" in colleges and universities.  The instructors and professors are the "Thought instructors."  Big technology is the "Thought Police."  Facebook and the others can choose what they consider "obscenities" or “swear words” or “inappropriate” (meaning politically incorrect) and turn them into "Thought Crimes."  Thus, they limit free speech and knowledge that runs against political correctness.  For example, they can choose "the greater good" to mean whatever they feel is appropriate without measuring what "the greater good" is.

And then there is the Singularity hidden in this fog of the political right and left.  It's G. Orwell's "Big Brother."  And more and more, it's always watching and consuming the ability of humans to choose and to be responsible for their actions.

There is at least one way to synergize the right and the left with the Singularity.  It is documented in the book entitled Jeffersonian Economic Architecture in the Digital Age.  It’s not a book for the casual reader because it's more of a text or manual of how this new political/economic system would integrate the three factions.  It's disruptive of all three, but in the end, it will create a stable economic system based on talent, education, opportunity, and personal responsibility.  But for those interested, it should be of great interest.