Time magazine published a huge article last week on the topic of singularity, which, in my opinion, will become a major academic topic in the upcoming decades.
Singularity is a term used in astrophysics to describe a point in space time in which the laws of physics do not apply (think inside of a black hole). In technology, singularity refers to the the point in which the growth of technology is so rapid that it impossible to predict the future. Many futurists (yes, that's actually a profession) have elaborated on this forthcoming phenomenon. In the article, futurist Raymond Kurzweil has predicted that in 2045 the quantity of all artificial intelligence will be about a billion times more than the sum of all human intelligence. Philosophize on that for a moment.
You can check out the article here: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
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