The Singularity And Sleepwalkers

The Singularity Is Always Near

Kevin Kelly | 3rd February 2026 | U

The tech singularity — the point at which technology becomes a black hole of self-perpetuating creations — “will always appear as if it is about to happen”. “The singularity is simply a phantom that will materialise anytime you observe exponential acceleration retrospectively. In a thousand years from now, all the 11-dimensional charts at that time will show that ‘the singularity is near’” (2,400 words)

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Daydreamers And Sleepwalkers

Antonio Melechi | MIT Press Reader | 2nd February 2026 | U

Miscellaneous reflections on the intriguing “borderlands between sleep and wakefulness”. When French President Paul Deschanel found himself wandering at night along a railway line several miles south of Paris, bloody-faced and disoriented, nobody could confirm what had precipitated the episode. Could the sleepwalker be considered to have a nocturnal self that can act independently? (2,400 words)