This heritage is acknowledged in the writings of V. More recently, it has become a common trope in speculative fiction. 'Singularity' thinking's ancestry can be traced back to the utopian thinking of Campanella, as well as positivistic utopianism, the works of eschatological thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, and the speculative writings of computer scientists. An analogy can be established with religious eschatology and its trademark anxiety for a form of Rapture. However, the pace of development of information technologies is uncertain, and the predictions for the date of emergence of a 'Singularity' are pushing it farther into the future. This notion finds its technological basis in the exponential development of information technology during the 20th century, as expressed in 'Moore’s Law'. "Contemporary 'Singularity' thinking has its origins in Vernor Vinge’s influential proposal of the emergence of greater-than-human artificial intelligence (AI) as an ‘event horizon’ in human history.
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