The notion of an "intelligence explosion" was first described thus by Good (1965), who speculated on the effects of superhuman machines:Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can ...
Nicholas de Condorcet, the 18th century French mathematician, philosopher, and revolutionary, is commonly credited for being one of the earliest persons to contend the existence of a singularity. In h ...
Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and argue that it is diff ...
The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence, radicall ...
heories There are several theories that purport to explain the mechanics of diffusion:The two-step hypothesis - information and acceptance flows, via the media, first to opinion leaders, then to the g ...
Diffusion is the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market. The rate of diffusion is the speed that the new idea spreads from one consumer to the next. Adoption (the recipro ...
Media determinism, a subset of technological determinism, is a philosophical and sociological position which posits the power of the media to impact society. As a theory of change, it is seen as a cau ...
Thomas L. Friedman, American journalist, columnist and author, admits to being a technological determinist in his book The World is Flat.Futurist Raymond Kurzweil's theories about a technological sing ...
Scepticism about technological determinism emerged alongside increased pessimism about techno-science in the mid-20th century, in particular around the use of nuclear energy in the production of nucle ...
Individuals who consider technology as neutral see technology as neither good nor bad and what matters are the ways in which we use technology. An example of a neutral viewpoint is, "guns are neutral ...
In examining determinism Hard determinism can be contrasted with Soft Determinism. A compatibilist says that it is possible for free will and determinism to exist in the world together while an incomp ...
Technological determinism seeks to show technical developments, media, or technology as a whole, as the key mover in history and social change.Most interpretations of technological determinism share t ...
The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American. Veblen's contemporary, popular historian Charles A. Beard, provided this apt determinist image, "Technology marc ...
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have been coine ...
Theory of technological evolution Mankind In Transition; A View of the Distant Past, the Present and the Far Future, Masefield Books, 1993./ref technology (which Richta defines as "a material entity c ...
