What is the Singularity?

What is a technological singularity? Scientifically the word singularity is used in a few distinctly different ways. Modern general relativity defines a space-time singularity -- also known as a gravitational singularity -- as a point that contains huge mass in infinitely small space, where the laws of physics as we know them cease to operate. The state of the Universe at the beginning of the Big Bang was a space-time singularity. Black holes are said to contain gravitational singularities.