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It's not much of a spoiler to say that the Singularity happens in Rudy Rucker's new novel Postsingular, since the title gives that development away. But what happens after the Singularity will surprise you. People usually define the Singularity as the moment when artificial intelligences improve themselves to the point where they surpass us, but Rucker's singularity takes many more forms, and is much more confounding, than that. Here are the ten things that will surprise you about Postsingular. It's all spoilers from here on out! More »
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Computers will become self-aware and smarter than humans. And Baby Boomers will live forever. That's the basis of the Singularity, which predicts that technology will accelerate so rapidly that we'll be like gods in twenty years. Rudy Rucker's new novel deals with a world where the Singularity has already happened, called Postsingular. He used to mock the Singularity, but now he's become a believer because it opens up so many awesome story ideas. Just look at Postsingular. More »
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