The Singularity has happened; we call it "the industrial revolution" or "the long nineteenth century". It was over by the close of 1918.
The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
The Singularity has happened; we call it "the industrial revolution" or "the long nineteenth century". It was over by the close of 1918.
The Singularity is Here - David Perell
The Singularity is already here, and it began in Western Europe at the end of the 16th century.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.
Divergence with a Vengeance
The 19th century was more important than I previously thought
When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again
The Italian Futurists praised invention, modernity, speed, and disruption. Sound familiar?
Age of Invention: The Industry of All Nations
The spirit of the nineteenth-century exhibitions of industry, and how we might organise a Great Exhibition for the modern day.
New Media and the Recurring Crisis of Norms
In her Introduction to When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (1988), historian Carolyn Marvin makes some instructive comments about he…
Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun
What do you think?
The Year in Physics
Physicists saw a black hole for the first time, debated the expansion rate of the universe, pondered the origin of time and modeled the end of clouds.
