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The Singularity must be the next metasystem transition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem_transition), the Control of Culture.

As soon as old media will get napstered and Culture will become impossible to be manipulated, and, as soon as we uploaded ourselves completely to the web --- we will have a new digital universe assuring parallel existences and a gateway to the 'old' biological life.

Is that good enough for a Singularity?



> as soon as we uploaded ourselves completely to the web -

I think I see a few technological snags there.


"The world will be changed by the ability to routinely read genetic sequences into computing systems and then store, replicate, alter and insert them back into living cells."

Source: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/synthetic-lif... , based on the current article.




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