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Science fiction’s most terrifying prediction

Published 8 months ago

Warning : the following essay contains the most terrifying prediction made by science fiction…

…you might be happier not knowing.

So. This is one of those good news bad news situations.

This is an exponential growth curve. A graph of a positive feedback loop, where a process feeds back into itself…positively.

EXAMPLE : as a fire grows more material becomes combustible creating more fire and … repeat.

Or … technology. The more technology you create, the more technology you can create, inciting an exponential growth curve until you hit

The Technological Singularity

AKA The Rapture of the Nerds