Posthuman Blues

The Evolution Will Be Mechanized (by the ever-dependable Bruce Sterling)

"The rate of technological change is dizzying, and it's only getting faster. In September at Stanford, the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change is acknowledging the trend with its second annual Accelerating Change conference. The 2003 confab was billed as 'the first in the world to focus on the multidisciplinary implications of accelerating change and the multidisciplinary implications of accelerating change and the consequences of a technological singularity.' What is a technological singularity? A moment when runaway advances outstrip human comprehension and all our knowledge and experience becomes useless as a guidepost to the future."