The coming retail singularity

  In 1993, a US scientist named Vernor Vinge wrote an essay entitled, “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era”. Vinge’s ‘singularity’ was the time “within 30 years (when) we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended”. Cheery stuff! His view was ahead of its time, when you consider that the internet age had not yet dawned in the

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