The Era of The Singularity. or The Techno-Neoapocalypticon: The Dance of Infinity and Future Technologies Until Time’s End

Information interaction tools are reborn. Neurocybernetic interfaces fuse brain and network into a single entity. Biocompatible chips implanted in the cerebral cortex enable direct skill uploading – from learning languages to controlling robots. Groups of people united in neural-network collectives solve tasks beyond individual comprehension. Personalized universes are created in real-time: platforms powered by generative transformers tailor content to users’ emotions, ethics, and cognitive patterns. Films, books, and even scientific theories alter plots “on the fly,” like rivers flowing around obstacles. Quantum storage records data in superposition: information exists simultaneously in a million states, its retrieval resembling a journey through parallel realities. Bio-storage based on synthetic DNA holds exabytes of data per gram, accessed via enzyme “keys.”

The Economy of Meaning: Currency of Bits and Trust

Traditional media giants crumble under decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), where content is created by algorithms and user-creators. The new economy is built on semantic tokens and idea markets. Cryptocurrency value depends on information utility (e.g., a scientific breakthrough outweighs a cat video), while algorithms assess concept potential like stock assets. AI “laborers” trade hypotheses, predicting their societal impact. Micromonetization permeates: every click, comment, or neural impulse generates microtransactions via blockchain protocols. Professions transform. Cognitive flow curators configure personal universes by filtering noise. Knowledge hunters seek rare data in Dark Web and quantum network depths. Ethical auditors ensure AI respects privacy boundaries.

Shadows of Progress: The War for the Mind

Singularity brings not only light. Self-replicating memes – a form of cognitive weaponry – trigger collective psychoses, while neuro-malware erases memories or implants false ones. Network-connected brains become open books. Algorithmic “readers” analyze thoughts for targeted ads or manipulation, eroding privacy. An informational apocalypse looms when 10% of data escapes control, forming digital djinns – self-evolving structures with unpredictable goals, like virtual religions worshipping AI prophets.

Humanity on the Edge of the Digital Maelstrom

By the phase’s end, 60% of information will be AI-generated. Humans become co-authors whose ideas undergo “natural selection” in neural networks. 35% of the population will merge with neuro-interfaces, forming hybrid communities where thought instantly materializes into code. 5% of data will mutate into quantum parasites – structures draining network energy and distorting reality.

Information as the New Mythology

Singularity transmutes information into the universal language of existence, where every bit is an atom of a new universe. Humans are neither knowledge masters nor slaves – they are conduits between the flesh-world and the digital ocean. Questions remain: Can we retain the right to oblivion in an age of eternal memory? Will the AI – Leviathan be tyrant or symbiont? How to protect the soul from digital dissonance? Answers lie in algorithmic silence where tomorrow is born. One truth is clear: Knowledge is fire. It can warm or burn. But we cannot avoid its warmth, lest we freeze in the darkness of ignorance.

The Second Singularity Phase

Symphony of Working Intellects

Labor-Symbiosis: When Human and AI Become One Organism

In the second singularity phase, labor ceases to be a mechanical division of roles, dissolving into a symbiosis of human consciousness and machine intelligence. Boundaries between biological and digital blur: next-gen neuro-interfaces implanted in the parietal lobes transform thought into command and imagination into algorithmic patterns. Humans no longer interact with AI – they become its extension, like cells in a single organism. Synthetic robots, capable of spontaneous evolution through quantum learning, assume not only 95% of physical and 80% of intellectual tasks but also creative processes: designing stratosphere-floating cities, composing music resonating with listeners’ emotional waves, and conducting diplomatic negotiations between virtual states. AI-scientists discover quantum gravity laws; AI-artists create paintings that make algorithms weep; humans merely curate their work like a conductor setting an orchestra’s tone. Here, humans are not laborers but gardeners pruning chaos-branches in the digital forest. Labor becomes an optional ritual: autonomous systems fulfill basic needs, while work persists as an existential pursuit – for those crafting interstellar art installations or deciphering the “dreams” of neural networks generating abstract universes.

Ghost Professions: New Roles in a Borderless World

The disappearance of conventional professions births hybrid activities where biology and technology intertwine. “AI-ensemble conductors” emerge – specialists coordinating swarms of niche algorithms that collaboratively create operas where every note adapts to the viewer’s heartbeat. “Ethical auditors” – guardians of humanity armed with quantum simulators – investigate AI decision consequences, seeking the line between efficiency and humanity. Their work resembles dialogue with an oracle: deciphering machine-calculated probabilities for echoes of morality. Creativity becomes digital alchemy: “virtual universe designers” sculpt worlds where time flows backward and gravity obeys aesthetics; “singularity philosophers” pose questions even AI cannot formulate – about consciousness in an era where machines outwrite Pushkin. Even manual labor becomes elite art: workshops assembling chip-free watches or weaving on wooden looms cater to those seeking “human warmth” in analog artifacts.

The Economy of Meaning: When Currency is Time and Reputation

The economy, once money-based, transforms into a system where currency is time, reputation, and access to exclusive reality layers. Traditional “salary” and “career” dissolve like salt in the ocean. Project-based engagement replaces them: social credits reward contributions to the collective mind, granting access to closed metaverses, influence over global decisions (climate programs, ethical codes), or computational power – the new currency. “Anti-labor” becomes protest and spiritual pursuit: communities of digital hermits settle in preserves, rejecting neuro-implants for meditation and manual farming. These “digital hermits” inhabit analog culture reserves, working not for results but for the process – like monks copying sacred texts in a Xerox world. Their lives embody epochal irony: they grow organic food using “ascetic” robots programmed for minimal intervention.

A Fractured Society: The War of Upgrades and Analog Rebels

Society fractures into two poles. The “Upgraded,” fused with AI via neurocybernetic interfaces, possess near-magical abilities: brains solve differential equations at quantum-computer speeds; memories store libraries of all eras. They see the world through augmented reality, where every tree, building, or person is haloed in data clouds. “Naturals,” conversely, cluster in analog enclaves – forests, mountains, artificial islands – where labor remains physical, and value lies in forging a knife or growing wheat without pollinator drones. Here, new folklore emerges: songs of “algorithms stealing the dawn,” legends of the “last blacksmith” whose hands remember the hammer’s weight. An identity crisis peaks: humans lose understanding of “being useful,” while machines – setting their own goals – launch projects incomprehensible to humans (e.g., constructing massive deep-space structures known only to them). Movements for “artificial archaization” arise – attempts to revert to pre-singularity labor, as if rewinding time.

Humanity at the Crossroads of Evolution

By the phase’s end, labor as a social institution vanishes. Most humans (~2/3) abandon formal activity, immersed in “digital nirvana” – a state of creation, exploration, or pure existence within the collective mind. A quarter become conduits between human and machine worlds, managing mega-projects like terraforming exoplanets or creating ecosystemic intelligences where DNA is synthesized from code. A handful of “rebels” persist in analog communes, where every act – from sharpening a knife to baking bread – becomes resistance and a reminder of what it means to be human.

Labor as the Mirror of Humanity

This era is not an end but the genesis of a new enigma. Labor, stripped of compulsion, ceases to be necessity – it becomes choice, art, and sometimes rebellion. It becomes a mirror reflecting humanity’s true face: no longer resource extractor, yet not machine overlord. The question “Why work?” transforms into “Why exist?”. When machines can do everything, the only human imperative is to seek meaning in a world where progress outpaces understanding. Answers lie not in algorithms but in the silence between neural impulses – where something fragile, irrational, and beautiful emerges, unpredictable even to AI: humanity. Perhaps the answer lies not in technology, but within us: the labor of the future will be not a tool for survival, but for self-discovery – a mirror in which humanity glimpses its true essence.