>>114658
Serious post: the Singularity is already over. The technological Singularity took place between 1940 and 1968, with jet engines, penicillin, atomic energy, the transistor, and the moon landings. It's done. It's not coming back. We are now in the other kind of asymptotic curve, the boring kind, where generations pass without meaningful change.
>but the sum total of human knowledge doubles each year!
Do you mean stuff published in scientific journals? 90%+ of it was grant-farming bullshit before you were born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Now 99%+ of it is grant-farming bullshit written by bots.
>but muh Internet
Is a communication tool, nothing more, not greatly different from the telegraph or the printing press. There was a time when influential people said things like "information wants to be free," and seemed to mean it. The Internet was going to make the whole world more transparent and democratic. That was in 1995. Now it's become pretty obvious that the Internet exists so that the next generation of children is going to have Amazon "BUY IT NOW" buttons surgically implanted in their brains before they can walk.
>but muh artificial intelligence
Is mostly hype. It is being applied to medical problems and here and there it has come up with something novel, but right now all "AI" means is that 99.999999% of those terawatt-hours of electrical power that are being expended 24/7/365 are being used up by people bored at work. "Hey Grok, if I were the size of an eraser, how many ants could I fight?" "Here's a picture of my cat, make a movie about him kung fu fighting raccoons." All of this is being paid for by multinational superhypermegalobanks and trillion-dollar hedge funds that are betting that eventually they're going to find a way to make money off it. Right now it's an infinite money pit, not just for the investors, but for small-town people who believed that the new data center would create "muh good payin jerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbs" and did not know that it's going to be constructed by illegal alien migrant construction laborers then managed remotely from India. They're going to hire a two, maybe three, retired Boomers as part-time security guards for minimum wage. There won't even be a janitor, because Gramps over here is going to sit in a guard shack at the front gate all day and there's not going to be one single human being inside the locked doors. They may occasionally call a local electrician if something goes wrong and the data center company's staff of traveling electricians is a little short-handed that week. And in exchange for it forty square miles of pasture land get paved over for cement block buildings, and everybody's electric bill quadruples forever for six counties in all directions. This state of affairs will continue until the hedge funds realize that they're throwing good money after bad, and then it'll be shut down, graffitied and looted of copper by the local methbillies, and in a decade it'll be a popular destination for urban explorers.
This is the future. Forever. We aren't getting space travel. We aren't getting cities on Mars. We aren't exploring the galaxy. We aren't even going to get new antibiotics faster than bacteria mutate to defeat the old ones. Get used to it.