{"id":240914,"date":"2026-07-15T08:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/karl-schroeder-the-singularity-is-an-old-idea-keep-moving-forward"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:06:55","slug":"karl-schroeder-the-singularity-is-an-old-idea-keep-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/karl-schroeder-the-singularity-is-an-old-idea-keep-moving-forward","title":{"rendered":"Karl Schroeder: The Singularity is an Old Idea. Keep Moving Forward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/karl-schroeder-the-singularity-is-an-old-idea-keep-moving-forward.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/194179965-singularity1on1-karl-schroeder.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years ago, a science fiction author looked me in the eye and told me the singularity was already old news.<\/p>\n<p>This was 2012. Almost nobody outside a small circle was talking about it. And Karl Schroeder, one of Canada\u2019s sharpest minds in #ScienceFiction and foresight, was telling me to stop staring at it.<\/p>\n<p>His words stuck with me: take the singularity, use it, it\u2019s a lens. Then develop other lenses. Keep hunting for blind spots.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I thought he was just being contrarian. Today, with #AI swallowing every headline and every boardroom, I think he saw something most of us are still missing.<\/p>\n<p>Schroeder doesn\u2019t hand you easy answers. We got into the technological maximum, the Rewilding, why he believes \u201ctechnology is legislation,\u201d and why he rates the singularity as possible but not probable. He picked apart almost every assumption I walked in with.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what keeps nagging me. The blind spot he warned me about in 2012 might be the exact thing everyone is fixated on in 2026.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/karl-schroeder-the-singularity-is-an-old-idea-keep-moving-forward\">Continue reading \u201cKarl Schroeder: The Singularity is an Old Idea. Keep Moving Forward!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, a science fiction author looked me in the eye and told me the singularity was already old news. This was 2012. Almost nobody outside a small circle was talking about it. And Karl Schroeder, one of Canada\u2019s sharpest minds in #ScienceFiction and foresight, was telling me to stop staring at it. His [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}