The Economic Singularity and Transhumanism
Introduction Civilisations do not collapse in silence. They collapse with warning signs that most people choose to ignore. Today we are witnessing one of those signs and it is called the economic singularity. It is not about a small adjustment in how we work or a temporary disruption in a single industry. It is about the complete erasure of the relationship between labour and survival. For centuries we have believed that to live you must work. But what happens when work has no value at all? Technology is moving at a speed that human instincts cannot comprehend. Artificial intelligence is not merely automating simple tasks. It is entering fields once considered sacred to human intelligence such as medicine, law, art, science and even philosophy. Robotics and biotechnology are rewriting the rules of physical effort. Quantum computing is collapsing time scales that once protected us. Together these forces are converging and they will not politely wait for society to adapt. To understand t...
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