Via the excellent Peggy I discover that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’s journal, IEEE Spectrum, has a special issue on the Singularity, including a contribution from Vernor Vinge. I haven’t had a chance to read much of it yet, but there does seem to be a fair amount of debunking going on in addition to the wild-eyed fantasizing. I also note in passing that the word “singularity” is becoming seriously devalued.