> Technology advancing so fast that we no longer can control or understand it? ... Yeah, that already happened to my parent's generation with AOL That's not th

> Technology advancing so fast that we no longer can control or understand it? ... Yeah, that already happened to my parent's generation with AOL That's not the singularity, else we'd have had several singularities across several generations as certain groups of people fail to grasp the utility or value of printing presses, steam engines or atomic bombs. The notion of the singularity suggests a point past which it is impossible to predict the future. Global networking, in its basic form, was entirely predictable to certain technologists for decades before its existence. In fact, the original Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot nailed many peaces of later commonplace technologies – even multiplayer gaming. Hell, I read of a B'ahai priest who predicted the world wide web in the 30's. Meanwhile, a singularity posits a confluence of technologies, connectedness and social change that renders all events past its arrival entirely impossible to predict.