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ELI5: The concept of the "Technological Singularity" and how seriously we should take it?
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The basic concept is that technology is growing at an exponentially fast rate: that is, the amount of technology growth every, say, two years, is *twice* as much as the growth that came during the two years before that.

At some point, our creations will match us in intelligence, and then become *more* intelligent than us. At this point, a "singularity" occurs: it is a point after which nobody knows what the future will bring, technologically. Those that are more intelligent than us will be able to construct beings more intelligent than themselves, and so on until there are creatures of godlike intelligence. 

The unaided human brain will be incapable of keeping up: lifetimes of technological advances will happen in the course of days, or even hours. In order to survive, most of humanity will essentially merge with machinery, and the line between man and machine will vanish nearly completely.

How seriously should we take it? Very. Should we be skeptical of the optimistic dates people like Kurzweil like to throw around? Very.