TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS KEY TO THE FUTURE

An African adage that says "if you don't know where you are coming from, you will not know where you are going to" got me studying the history of technology, so I can interpret the technology crystal ball. The advancements in technology is very rapid and it is important to peek into the future, because it belongs to those that shape it today. Throughout my quest to understand how technologies we use today have metamorphosed into what they are, the prophecies about'Singularity' keeps resounding in my head because of its imminence in our society. Singularity literally means the quality or condition of being singular. However, the term can be defined from different perspectives; mathematicians define it as a point at which a function takes an infinite value, while physicists describe it as a time when matter is intensely dense.