The Singularity is a theory or school of thought that is premised on the increasingly rapid (exponential) pace of change in technology development. Singularity advocates describe a point at which technology developments will render a future for human life that is dramatically different than anything we have known or experienced up to that point. Among the proposed implications of this point of technological demarcation is a radical extension in human longevity. Some Singularity advocates believe that technology will enable extreme longevity and even immortality.
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David Stipp has written about science, medicine, the environment and biotech since 1982 for The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Salon, Science and other publications. He led Fortune’s science and medical coverage from 1995 to 2005 as a senior writer, and from 1982 to 1995 covered science and medicine as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Over the past decade he has written extensively on the science of aging. In 1998 he won a National Association of Science Writers’ award for best magazine article, and in 1993-4 served as a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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There is a prominent and growing group of people who believe that the exponential pace of technological progress will have a profound near-term impact on society. Singularity is a term often associated with this school of thought.
