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When human knowledge starts doubling instantly or at most every few seconds .... THAT is a singularity. In 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every 100
by stevenjgarner 5y ago
When human knowledge starts doubling instantly or at most every few seconds .... THAT is a singularity. In 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every 100 years. By the end of 1945, the rate was every 25 years. The “Knowledge Doubling Curve”, as it’s commonly known, was created by Buckminster Fuller in 1982. From an article on Industry Tap written by David Schilling, the host went on to say that not only is human knowledge, on average, doubling every 13 months, we are quickly on our way, with the help of the Internet, to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours. If you want to take this even further down the preverbial road, you combine this with Ray Kurzweil’s (Head of Google Artificial Intelligence) “singularity” theory and Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s ideas which are discussed in their book, “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business” and you have some serious changes to technology, human intelligence and business coming down the pike whether you like it or not - https://lodestarsolutions.com/keeping-up-with-the-surge-of-information-and-human-knowledge/ https://lodestarsolutions.com/keeping-up-with-the-surge-of-i...
- kiba 5y agoThat still leaves singularity undefined. What does it mean, socially and culturally?