Much like the beginning credits of Monty Python’s “Search for the Holy Grail”… I’m completely altering the style of my writing. First, my laptop died and all my notes and ideas for this post got shot down with it. Second, I have an eerie feeling that synergy in technology will lead to a technological singularity within this decade and “writing” blogs will become passe.

Let me sum up what I do remember of my original plans for this entry: smart phones steadily increase in power and connection speeds, IBM develops ever more powerful supercomputers along with new AI software able to learn and memorize facts and capable of answering verbal questions with proper syntax,  linked data is now just an idea but it will come to fruition shortly. Of course for each of these technological wonders I had witty comments and examples ready to illustrate their significance, but now you’ll just have to take my words at face value or do the research and analysis yourself.

What I foresee happening is this: the above mentioned technologies  synergized (yes, I know it’s not a verb yet, but soon it will be the singular most powerful description of the unfathomable leap in humanity’s evolution) with a cloud of web based supercomputers will produce the following: an internet with Artificial Intelligence capable of conversing with smart phone users through voice interface, not only capable of providing factual answers but capable of problem solving, analysis, prediction and custom design. In effect we’re talking about a technological singularity whose knowledge is accessible for any smart phone wielding human. If the divinity of this event escapes you I suggest you read “A Choice of Gods” by Clifford D. Simak.