WHAT IS SINGULARITY
Technological singularity is the development of 'superintelligence' brought about through the use of technology.The first use of the term 'singularity' refer to technological minds was by mathematician John von Neumann in the mid-1950s.He said: '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.'The term was then used by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge who believes brain-computer interfaces are causes of the singularity.Ray Kurzweil cited von Neumann's use of the term in a foreword to von Neumann's classic The Computer and the Brain.Kurzweil predicts the singularity to occur some time in the next 12 years.