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* VirtualReality: VideoGame/SecondLife is displayed at first, until it is surpassed by more advanced iterations of cyberspace.

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* HumansAreSpecial: In order to avoid deletion, Ramona has to prove herself at least as human as other Turing Test participants.

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''The Singularity is Near'' is a 2008 SpeculativeDocumentary directed by Ray Kurzweil, author of the [[FilmOfTheBook book of the same name]]. The film deals with artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, laying out Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns and what that could mean for technology, industry, and the definition of what it means to be human.

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''The Singularity is Is Near'' is a 2008 SpeculativeDocumentary directed by Ray Kurzweil, author of the [[FilmOfTheBook book of the same name]]. The film deals with artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, laying out Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns and what that could mean for technology, industry, and the definition of what it means to be human.



!!''The Singularity Is Near'' contains examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film talks about the technological advances that will be made in the next twenty years. The Ramona side plot follows this timeline to the first legally sentient AI.



* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film talks about the technological advances that will be made in the next twenty years. The Ramona side plot follows this timeline to the first legally sentient AI.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[Series/{{NCIS}} Abby Sciuto]].
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* BenevolentAI: Ramona, as demonstrated by the nanobots incident.
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** Subverted, in that it is not our humanness that makes us special, but our complex brains which allow sentience.

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** Subverted, in that it is Ultimately subverted, since it's not our humanness that makes us special, but our complex brains which allow sentience.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film talks about the technological advances that will be made in the next twenty years. The Ramona side plot follows this timeline to the first legally sentient AI.

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* FilmOfTheBook: The book is much more [[InfoDump information dense]] and goes into deeper detail regarding the results of accelerating technology.

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* FilmOfTheBook: The book is much more [[InfoDump information dense]] and goes into deeper detail regarding the results implications (technical, biological, social, etc.) of accelerating technology.


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* InfoDump: The book is much more detailed than the movie, going into great detail about the potential of accelerating technology on many aspects of human life.
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* FilmOfTheBook: The book is much more [[InfoDump information dense]] and goes into deeper detail regarding the results of accelerating technology.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Has advanced so far that one specimen seeks recognition as a person in the eyes of the law.
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* ExpositionDiagram: The movie and especially the book uses graphs to show how the growth of technology is exponential.
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--> ''Ray Kurzweil:'' If you asked me "Does God exist?", I would say "Not yet."

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--> ''Ray Kurzweil:'' '''Ray Kurzweil:''' If you asked me "Does God exist?", I would say "Not yet."
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--> ''Ray Kurzweil:'' If you asked me "Does God exist?", I would say "Not yet."
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* VirtualReality: Second Life is displayed prominently at first, until it is surpassed.

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* VirtualReality: Second Life VideoGame/SecondLife is displayed prominently at first, until it is surpassed.surpassed by more advanced iterations of cyberspace.

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''The Singularity is Near'' is a 2008 documentary directed by Ray Kurzweil, author of the book of the same name. The film deals with artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, laying out Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns and what that could mean for technology, industry, and the definition of what it means to be human.

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''The Singularity is Near'' is a 2008 documentary SpeculativeDocumentary directed by Ray Kurzweil, author of the [[FilmOfTheBook book of the same name.name]]. The film deals with artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, laying out Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns and what that could mean for technology, industry, and the definition of what it means to be human.


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* SpeculativeDocumentary: Ray Kurzweil uses the acceleration of technology to project where we will be in just a few decades. These inferred capabilities are the basis of the parallel Ramona story.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is Abby Sciuto from ''Series/{{NCIS}}''.

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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[Series/{{NCIS}} Abby Sciuto from ''Series/{{NCIS}}''.Sciuto]].
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [''Series/{{NCIS}}'' Abby Sciuto].

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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [''Series/{{NCIS}}'' Abby Sciuto].Sciuto from ''Series/{{NCIS}}''.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''Series/{{NCIS}}'' Abby Sciuto]].

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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''Series/{{NCIS}}'' [''Series/{{NCIS}}'' Abby Sciuto]].Sciuto].
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''{NCIS}'' Abby Sciuto]].

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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''{NCIS}'' [[''Series/{{NCIS}}'' Abby Sciuto]].
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''TVSeries/{NCIS}'' Abby Sciuto]].

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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''TVSeries/{NCIS}'' [[''{NCIS}'' Abby Sciuto]].
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''Series/NCIS'' Abby Sciuto]].

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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]]: Ramona is [[''Series/NCIS'' [[''TVSeries/{NCIS}'' Abby Sciuto]].

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