How many singularities are near and how will they disrupt human history?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1365-1378

  Magee, Christopher L ^a   Devezas, Tessaleno C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Metrics in technological change; Societal transformation; Technological singularities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN NEEDS; LOGISTIC CURVES; SOCIAL CHANGES; SOCIETAL CHANGES; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS; TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITIES; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME KEEPING; UNCERTAIN FACTORS;

FOSSIL FUELS;

FORECASTING;

GLOBALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL HISTORY; SOCIAL IMPACT; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EID: 80053198388     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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