What is the Singularity?

The well known exponential growth in innovation, invention and technology development appears to lead toward an event so substantial, so revolutionary, that it's occurrence could be rated on par with the emergence of life on the planet.

The path to the singularity is suggested to find it's way through the emergence of machine intelligence that surpasses our own. The exponential nature of the phenomenon suggests that at the emergence of such intelligence, the path to the singularity will be a very rapid one.

Will we know the singularity for what it is as the symptoms of it's emergence are difficult ones to forecast. These are some of the interesting questions that I wish to ponder in this blog.

What would a superior intelligence look like? Can a cat ponder the nature of the superior intelligence of humans? The symptoms of the coming Singularity, even if recognized may not be apparent to the great mass of humanity. What if there are pivotal happenings in the world which are beyond the understanding of an average person.

And then as well, what does the other side of the singularity look like. Who will participate, who/what will lead, what happens to the oblivious masses.