[Dean's World] Dave Price: Signs the Singularity Has Arrived

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Posted by Dave Price:
Signs the Singularity Has Arrived
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1152629462.shtml


   With all the worrying about the future of technology, it's important
   for people to know when the Singularity has arrived. This helpful
   guide will provide some hints as to when you may have passed the event
   horizon in the predictability of human technological development.
   10) You're late to work because can't remember where you left the
   encryption keys to your backup consciousness cache.
   9) TV watches you more than you watch it.
   8) Your divorce proceedings include nasty fight over who owns the
   source code to your wife's operating system.
   7) Your cats have higher incomes and several more advanced degrees
   than you. Occasionally, they let you pet them while they do
   differential calculus (they think you're so cute when you do that).
   6) You're evicted from your body, which is seized by the county and
   sold for back taxes.
   5) More computers own people than people own computers. Video game
   violence takes on an entirely new meaning.
   4) Civilization collapses and rebuilds itself several times during
   your daily commute to work. This generally causes you only a slight
   delay.
   3) Political analysts are surprised when third-party AI candidate is
   elected President with 99.99999% of the vote as several trillion
   voters are created minutes before polls close.
   2) Goldfish crackers beg you for mercy, try to wriggle away, then
   scream when you bite into them. Your kids love this.
   1) "Blue Screen of Death" no longer just a figure of speech.