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Social Singularity

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The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse Kindle Edition

by Max Borders (Author)

What if politics as we know it is about to end?
What if humanity soon organizes itself not in hierarchies, but in hive minds?
What if society’s mediating structures—education, media, and financial institutions—are about to be completely transformed?

Welcome to The Social Singularity.

In this decentralization manifesto, futurist Max Borders shows that humanity is already building systems that will “underthrow” great centers of power.

Exploring the promise of a decentralized world, Borders says we will:

- Reorganize to collaborate and compete with AI;
- Operate within networks of superior collective intelligence;
- Rediscover our humanity and embrace values for an age of connection.

With lively prose, Borders takes us on a tour of modern pagan festivals, cities of the future, and radically new ways to organize society. In so doing, he examines trends likely to revolutionize the ways we live and work.

Although the technological singularity fast approaches, Borders argues, a parallel process of human reorganization will allow us to reap enormous benefits. The paradox? Our billion little acts of subversion will help us lead richer, healthier lives—and avoid the robot apocalypse.

https://www.quora.com/Is-a-social-singularity-imminent

Hakim Meddeb, futuristic technology enthusiast

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A sociocultural singularity is implied in the transhumanist concept of "Singularity", the term "technological" is only added to try to distinguish it from the concept of a singularity in physics.
Technology is arbitrarily chosen as the "trigger", but our technology is itself both a cause and product of our current sociocultural context, itself a product of global History, our nature as a species, and even the laws of this very universe.
Essentially, it means "passed this point, crazy shit that we can't predict nor even imagine will surely happen". In a way, it's an admition of ignorance, scientific humility and sense of wonder: we simply don't know.
We could also call it "historical singularity" or "human singularity".
Of course technology acts as an homogeneisation factor, but also as a diversification factor, it's just that now the cultural diversification is not so much based on physical distances and resulting isolation, but rather on a memetic toposphere of competing ideologies and mental states.
However, physical isolation could make a comeback as a sociocultural factor if we begin to spread on an interplanetary and interstellar scale, especially if faster than light travel and communication are impossible as it seems for now.
Or maybe they are possible afterall, so no isolation.
So, you can see, that's all quite complex for our poor current human minds, unpredictable.
Now for your questionning on:
"the movement of social acceptance towards certain minority groups, and the fact that extreme acceptance could result in a hypocrital intollerance and prejudice against thos who are do not accept the same level of acceptance"

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