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* [[Vernor Vinge]] has written several essays describing how he expects the singularity to happen.
* A variation of the mind uploads is immortality. Presumably Type II. What form this would take is unclear, but either as a result of radically enhanced medical science and genetic engineering, or as a result of consciousness uploads, it would by definition make post-immortality life on Earth nearly incomprehensible to those in the past. As an example, most vampire fiction stops with its incredibly [[Badass]] Elder vampires being a few hundred years old, anything much older being too arcane or too difficult to write - and nearly invariably a [[Complete Monster]] when they do occur. According to [[wikipedia:Aubrey de Gray|Aubrey de Gray]], immortal humans could easily triple-up [[The Vampire Chronicles|LeStat]] and that's if they weren't particularly careful. Imagine ''that'' culture shock to any point in human history.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616070928/http://singinst.org/ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence] is an organization hoping to ''engineer'' the Singularity by making an Artificial Intelligence significantly more intelligent than a human. The idea is that said AI will then be able to create most of the aforementioned technology (given the right resources). They also want [http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/LessWrong_Wiki to increase world reserves of Genre Savvy], to avert [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]] should their project succeed. It's a long term project.
* Ray Kurzweil is probably the foremost advocate of the hard singularity and often regarded as being one of the most optimistic among authorities of the subject. He believes the near future will see human extension and transformation through genetic engineering followed on (and probably overlapping with) nanotechnology which will lead to better long term maintenance and upgrades of the human body and radical improvements in the versatility, precision and energy efficiency of manufacturing. Finally, robots will mature and become prevalent. In particular, he believes many robots can and will be of the [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] variety (right down to the highly nuanced emotional states) which, combined with augmented reality, virtual reality, and whole brain emulation, will blur the lines between persons of natural and artificial origin.
** He acknowledges the challenges along with way. The genetic revolution will lead to smaller and smaller groups being able to engineer biological superweapons. This will lead to an exponentially increasing probability of a global scale attack. This in turn will be countered by the nano machine revolution since nanobots will be able to overpower any virus. But the nanotech revolution will create its own destructive potential which necessitates us moving to (or creating a species of) synthetic resilient bodies with human and/or synthetic intelligences (with the possibility for hybrids of the two.)
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