ANNOTATION:
The “Singularity” – Necessarily so?

Hopefully no singularity will be forthcoming.   The problem with
making computers smart is the fact that no computer enjoys the
sheer amount of experience with the real world as a human being 
obtains through normal living, and we do not have any way to 
 impart this to a machine directly at this point.  Currently more 
and more systems thinkers are arising.  As they interact, 
cybernetics states that they will form the substrate of a 
metasystem transition, out of which will come thoughts and 
direct actions creating the Global Brain.  The role of machines  
is that they form a synergism with humans, increasing the  
powers of each.  I certainly hope that a true singularity does 
not come about, for we have little need for such chaos at this 
point.  It’s equivalent will be the Global Brain, something much 
more desirable.