Proliferation of technology is set to dominate our society in the coming decades. Technological redundancy will lead to joblessness and therefore a modification of our ways of life and society, and the dawn of a new society of tomorrow where automation spontaneously creates food, energy and items of utility for the human populace.

According to climate scientists we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, and human beings may soon face the harsh reality of extinction. To fight off our own extinction we will need progress towards transhumanism. To fight off our own extinction due to lack of resources, struggle for existence, wars and aggressive intent and natural calamity will lead us to willfully melding with technology to lead towards the singularity. Runway climate change and nuclear fallout may add to this acceleration.

Critics of singularity consider it as speculative, pseudo-scientific and a crackpot theory, and point out that ‘accelerating returns’ may not attain such heights in such a short time due to the physical limitation of Moore’s Law, and inherent issues in mapping the human brain to develop human-like AI. In a future where no singularity takes place, we should still witness the coming of AGI and a robot economy. Only time will tell if our future generations live to tell the story, or whether our extinction is recorded in binary code.