The Guardian rounds up the best comments, questions and answers from our recent live chat on tomorrow's journalist – what tools and skills will they need to survive and thrive?
The singularity - not the origin of the universe, but the rupture with human history as we know it, when artificial intelligence surpasses the sum of all human intelligence.
By its nature, we cannot imagine what will happen after such a point (if it happens, that is), because if we could, it wouldn't surpass our intelligence.
But would it mean the end of aging (and death, concomitantly), and more technological advance in hours than we see now in decades? Raymond Kurzweil thinks so. And he is the subject of Time's cover story this week.
How seriously should we take all this? There are nay-sayers, after all. But they're no more qualified than the proponents of the singularity. So it's surely worth at least considering Kurzweil's question:
"Our average cell phone is about a millionth the size of, a millionth the price of and a thousand times more powerful than the computer he [I] at MIT 40 years ago. Flip that forward 40 years and what does the world look like?"
If your headline is a question, you haven't got the story. Well this one's about the future so I hope I'll be forgiven.