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- As author and mathematician Vernor Vinge first suggested - if we create an intelligence greater than our own, it can develop an intelligence even greater than itself, perhaps in a matter of only days. This resulting exponential intelligence escalation has come to be known as the Singularity. Once we start the process, it is very unlikely that we can stop it, and we have no idea what a hyper intelligence could - or would - do.
However, any time the power is down -- (and we're approaching the 10th anniversary of the great blackout of August 14, 2003) -- it is obvious to everyone that our society is balanced delicately on toothpicks and the Singularity will go stumbling into the dark with the rest of us.
Meanwhile , it looks like this project has almost reached its funding goal.