[ghostbrainalpha]

By that definition there would be MANY singularities throughout history. Pretty much anything that caused a paradigm shift would fit, for example "the printing press", "the atom bomb", or "the internet".

It is definitely an interesting way of looking at things, but I think waters down the "singular" part of the singularity too much.

[AnimalMuppet]

Well, the printing press was a singularity in the availability of information. The atom bomb was a singularity in defense and war. The Singularity is supposed to be a singularity in everything, or at least in enough of them that we can become gods (immortal, all-knowing and close enough to all-powerful).

And this discussion prompts a new thought: What are the military applications of The Singularity? (Don't bother saying that we're all going to live in peace and harmony after it happens. We won't.)

[ghostbrainalpha]

It isn't that we all live in peace and harmony, but any conflict would happen so rapidly and conclusively that 99% of time after the Singularity would be peace time.

[lostmsu]

Very much not necessary. You clearly haven't played the paperclips game.