"One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some

"One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue" 1958 Stanislaw Ulam wrote (in reference to a conversation with John von Neumann)