[ExI] Inevitability of the Singularity (was Re: To Max, re Natasha and Extropy (Kevin Haskell)

[BillK]

2011/7/6 Max More wrote:
>   "Automagically" -- Stefano, did you just make that up? I like it.
>
>


Stefano might have just made it up, but according to dictionaries it
is computer slang popular from the mid 1970s.


origin

    * This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in
jargon and probably much earlier. The word "automagic" occurred in
advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late
1940s.



BillK