Why I’m Writing a Book?
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." (Mark Twain)
Chances are you don’t know me. I am not an author, known blogger, or public figure. I am still learning how to become a great writer, instead of a good writer. To reach a larger audience and fulfill a dream of mine, I have decided it is time to write a book.
Medium helped me unlock a world of writing that exists beyond the conventional rules that I had grown accustomed to in my professional life. What I create stems solely from a desire to bleed who I am into written words.
Everyone has a story to tell, I think mine is worth sharing.
I don't actually predict the future in my book. I’m just giving the capabilities that we’ll have to affect it.
Now back to the future
An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. Our forebears expected the future to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past.
The Technological Singularity.
This is a little off the beaten path right now, but lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time contemplating this big concept. And since I find myself explaining this concept to people quite often, and enjoying it, I thought I’d dedicate a post to it as well. The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, leading to unforeseeable changes to human civilization.
Information Singularity
The problem is the growth of the information flow and the physiological limit of the speed of information processing.
Considering the rate of accumulation of digital information and the fact that more than 90% of the digital data existing in the world was created over the past 10 years, in 20-30 years (between 2040 – 2050) an endless gap will form between the physiological parameters of perception and the total amount of information accumulated by mankind. A person will completely lose the ability to independently navigate and effectively move in the global information field.
What does this mean for the lives of each of us?
This will mean a state of information singularity – in which almost all information will become virtually inaccessible, and what you can get from the worldwide network will in fact reflect the local information field formed around your person.
What’s the Difference?
A technological singularity is a moment after which technological progress will accelerate and become so complicated that it becomes inaccessible to human understanding. In other words, the technological singularity is a kind of consumer infantilism raised to the absolute.
The information singularity is something less pleasant and more dangerous. In the state of information singularity, it becomes impossible to search for and receive third-party (not prepared for you in advance) information.
We must understand that the development of Internet technologies requires from us not only participation and understanding but also a deep physiological transformation.
In order not to lose control over our own lives, we must increase the speed of information processing available to our nervous system.
Instead of creating machine intelligence as an alternative to human intelligence, we must turn our biological brain into the heart of a new AI: individual artificial intelligence. We must realize that we are living in an era of dizzying evolutionary transformation that will culminate in a test of survival.
