The Singularity Needs You (journal article)
by Jamais Cascio
from Futurist, Nov/Dec 2008, Vol. 42 No 6, pp. 24-28
The article focuses on technological innovation. It is stated that the advances in technology such as video games, camera phones, and the myriad day-to-day technologies that may attract momentary notice may also offer a new way of grappling with a future world. Caused in part by the ability of machines to improve using artificial intelligence, many scientists, researchers, computer programmers, and futurists believe that the next four decades would enter a phase of sudden and unprecented technological progress. However, it cites that how people shape some of the technologies that make up daily lives can be critical to pass safely through the coming period of radical change.