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CJCRANE

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3. *SPOILER* In William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 06:04 AM
Feb 2014

the internet reeaches a critical mass of complexity and becomes self-aware, it becomes a huge intelligent entity. That is one version of the singularity.

I was probably influenced by this idea, because after reading your post, an image popped into my mind, of all the cars in the world moving around without direct human control, all networked together. This is already feasible.

In the future more and more machines and objects will join the network. When the amount of human input needed to keep everything running becomes zero...maybe that's when the singularity happens.

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