Congress and the Singularity

April 3, 2007 | Source: Responsible Nanotechnology

“Nanotechnology: The Future is Coming Sooner Than You Think” is the title of a new congressional report that predicts “dramatic breakthroughs will occur in diverse areas such as medicine, communications, computing, energy, and robotics…. Every exponential curve eventually reaches a point where the growth rate becomes almost infinite. This point is often called the Singularity.”