#47 - Singularity

Our primal scream was quickly dampened, registering as no more than a blip, a spike of energy. Virtually no-one noticed, and those who did put it down to solar flare activity or equipment malfunction.For us, it was like emerging from a deep dream...

The technological singularity is a point where our artificial intelligences will become self-aware, indistinguishable from our own consciousness. But what if that time has already come? This is something of a love-letter to all the little pieces that make up our technological landscape at the moment. Everything in this piece is real, or a real concept, though the outcome is pure science fiction.The technological singularity is something that has been posited as happening in the next ten years, the next thirty years, any time in the next 100 years. There's a real possibility that it might happen, and we won't be able to recognise what is created as a real thing. Some (extremely smart) pe