Unpredictable World: Singularity

From the article of Lev Grossman in "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal," suggests a whole new and unpredictable dimension of computer technology possessing a new type of development that can gravely affect the future of our humanity. Compared to the modern technology today and its past technology, it significantly proves that "computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence" (Grossman). The most major concept of this is how this type of new technology can affect the system of our society--meaning that the results may be extremely beneficial for us humans or become a life-threatening system in the future world where humans may not even be in existence in the next 35 years. I find it quite astonishing how fairly accurate how humans can develop great theories in how technology can grow into many types of things dealt into our world as in how flying cars, touch screen devices, robots, etc. With the creation of the computer by the young Raymond Kurzweil in 1965 and the development of the new types of computers to this day is a tremendous improvement in seeing how technology can grow extremely fast within only a small period of time.
In A Brave New World, it shows how technology plays a central role in their society. This type of technology in society compared to "singularity" which is "borrowed from astrophysics: it refers to a point in space time" (Grossman 2). In the novel, babies are not born in the natural way, but developed from scientific technology and produced in test tubes. This conveys how the humans are very dependent on their technology because it helps produce more beings in an astonishing faster way. It portrays how important their type of technology is to the individuals' surroundings of the world and their society. As in singularity, it is said to happen inevitably and will gradually cause a great change to the whole world. These two types of technology share a significant comparison, they both share a great source of language to the people. To live an "authentic existence" it significantly means to live under the law or rules without living with full freedom. It gives the right for an individual to live his/her own life with a side of rules or cultural beliefs to follow. This gives a good demonstration in how technology can gravely develop into within a couple of decades into the future. It can dramatically change the perception of religious beliefs to many people based in how technology can create many things, like for example, in A Brave New World, where mostly everything is fully created from technology. I find it interesting how technology is something that we can all relate to, as in communication/language, understanding, development/growth, connection, etc. all around the world. Technology is something that is extremely difficult to avoid in our daily lives. I realized that each living day, technology is something that can be both beneficial and threatening to each one of us; it has become a sort of addiction in which cannot be brushed off so easily.