Singularity is that point in time when all the advances in technology, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI), will lead to machines that are smarter than Human beings.

The timetable for Singularity is consistent, the dawn of super-intelligent machines will happen by 2047. The process towards this singularity has already begun.

Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also computers are getting faster faster, the rate at which they are getting faster is increasing.

So if computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to Human intelligence. Artificial intelligence.

Computers keep on developing until they are far more intelligent than we are. Their rate of development will continue to increase, because they take over their own development from their slower-thinking Human creators.

Imagine a computer scientist that was itself a super-intelligent computer. It would work incredibly quickly. It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It would not take breaks to play Farmville.

It is impossible to predict the behavior of these smarter-than-Human intelligences with which we might one day share the planet. Maybe we will merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs.

Maybe the artificial intelligences will help us treat the effects of old age and prolong our life spans indefinitely.

Maybe we will scan our Consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us.

The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity of today. This transformation has a name: Singularity.