The first post, appropriately titled “Singularity 101: What is the singularity?” is a good place to start, giving readers background on what the “technological singularity” may mean for humanity, and what fantastical technologies may become reality once smarter-than-human intelligences emerge.
It’s been a couple of busy news weeks for singularitarians, with the recent Singularity University Executive Program (covered by mainstream outlets like Wired and BusinessWeek) spurring discussion, massive blogs like Gizmodo highlighting transhuman technologies with their “This Cyborg Life” miniseries, and now this very focused series of articles at GOOD.is – are we reaching a “tipping point” in which the concept of the singularity will begin to achieve mainstream awareness, but acceptance?