RolfAndreassen comments on Review of Kurzweil, 'The Singularity is Near' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 25 November 2011 06:39:59AM 4 points [-]

What, then, is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.

This strikes me as a very un-ambitious definition. It seems to match the scientific, industrial, and (possibly) computing revolutions as well as it matches anything likely to happen in the future.