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Growth through time:Through time though the singularity has really been on much of the backburner compared to many other pressing issues in the world news today such as global climate change, nuclear war, collapsing economies, etc. (Newitz 2010) Yet starting in the 1990s as the Internet grew and technology really started to develop at a faster rate, the idea that the exponential growth of technology was going to soon be a problem started to enter the minds of some experts. Technology itself at the beginning of the 1990s was infant compared to what it is today a little more than 20 years later. The World Wide Web, cell phones, and PCs were just getting put on the market for the first time. Today all of these things seem ancient, archaic and seem like they were all created ages ago. The vast and swift change has caused a complete reversal in our philosophy of technology as our lives have become almost centered on it instead of it being an aspect of our lives. We are now almost dependent on all kinds of artificial intelligence like GPS, smart phones, Intel software, and even robotics that we have created to complete tasks like Watson created by IBM.