by Daniel Relph

Created on: February 14, 2010   Last Updated: February 26, 2010

A technological singularity is a technical innovation that just sucks everything in. We have the Stone Age, when all the tools were made with stone. Then there is the Bronze Age when there was a big push to make things of bronze. Then there was the Iron Age… do you get the point? If not, when the great sailing ships came along we had "Captains of Industries" and when steam engines made everything go around we had "Wheels of Industries."

Nowadays maybe we should have the “Microprocessors of Industries
… or the “CPUs of Industries.” As technology changes it sucks us all in and then we change our point of view; and, our way of making a living. And it is not just our industrial base. There was a time when the main function of an artist was to preserve reality; then photography came into play producing pictures that were better at representing reality; but, were artist sucked out of existence? No. Artist started produce paintings that mirrored only things that were imagined.

Yes, things that we imagined. What could be imagined two thousand years ago that we have today? The truth is many things. The Romans had plumbing, masonry, concert, and many other things. Even Stone Age man came up with many things we still use. They had leather, hand bags, clothes, and even imagination. Look at the surreal cave paintings that can be found in France. Who could tell they were going to be the distant future? These cave paintings are amazing works of imagination that don’t try to preserve reality as we see in many old art pieces; it’s strange how imagination filters through.

Oh yes, imagination. Now if you take everything that describes being a human then you must take into account imagination. The fire in our souls and the fire in our roots is imagination. From heroes to gods, from chariots to spaceships we find that they are all a product of our imaginations. What many ask when considering technological singularities is if there will be a time when our imaginations will be surpassed by technology? As we pass into an era when computers become “intelligent” we must wonder what will be our future?

If you are a watcher of “Star Trek,” “Andromeda,” or, “Star Wars” then you’ll see that imagination is something that computers will always lack. If you are more in adherence to “The Terminator,” “The Matrix,” or, “Battlestar Galactica” then you’ll wonder.

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