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theadvancedapes  ·  4016 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity: What it’s like to pursue immortality.

    Does that mean that the driving force behind all of those theories converging in the 2040s is the discovery and exploitation of a new energy source?

Well my theory is built around energy exploitation... so if my work is published that will be my contribution to this literature. From my perspective a new system requires a new energy. We can't have a singularity without new energy to power it. So if I'm right that a complete transfer should occur in the 2030s, that would be enough time to power a singularity in the 2040s.

The initial speculation that the 2040s would be the "decade of the singularity" came from Kurzweil's work with Moore's Law extrapolation. Since then several other models related to other information technologies and communication systems (i.e., the Internet, nanotechnology, etc.) suggest interesting a quite sophisticated human technological system by this time.