[extropy-chat] the "singularity" word

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:57 PM 9/21/2004 +0100, Amara wrote:

>'We need a better word than "Singularity"'
>Brad Templeton's blog, September 20
>
>http://ideas.4brad.com/

which ends:

<I welcome suggestions from readers. I think the important thing to convey 
is perhaps the metaphor of the "blind corner" -- a sharp, but not 
impossibly sharp turn which you can't see around until you get there. The 
ideal metaphor should also convey the acceleration of change which causes 
the phenomenon, and this does not. >

Well, let's see. We could call it `the Curtain' or `the Wall'. But that 
doesn't convey the acceleration of change. I don't know, heck, it's so 
hard. How about... the Spike?

Damien Broderick
www.thespike.us