by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

(The Rundown Live) Many of us have heard about the concept of technological singularity — The theoretical point in which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence leading to a boom in technological development and exponential growth in automation, fundamentally altering the structure of human civilization.

The concept gained mainstream attention in 2005 with the publication of the best selling book The Singularity Is Near by renowned futurist and former Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil posited that technological singularity would take place by the year 2045, leading to a series of society altering developments including the merging of humans with cybernetics and biohybrid robotics, effectively transforming the human species.