If you’ve spent any time on Facebook recently, then you may well have seen a glimpse of the future of the internet: rows and ...

Ray Kurzweil has left a mark on our lives. The 76-year-old computer scientist, author, inventor and futurist is responsible for advances in technologies we take for granted: optical character ...

On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “The singularity,” the moment where AI is no longer under human control, is less than a decade ...

Singularity is a mathematical boundary beyond which predictability ceases, and it obviously holds a profound implication. We, as the human race, arguably stand on the cusp—or, perhaps, have already ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Over the past few weeks, I traveled through Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, experiencing firsthand the energy and transformation ...

The gap between where we are and where we need to be for any sort of technology 'singularity' to occur is huge -- and the measures futurologists point to don't actually seem to address the problem.