In computing, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) refers to a process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that performs: Data extraction â extracts data from homogeneous or heterogeneous data sources.
(Beginner) Reading astronomy books, I've come up with the word singularity a lot, but I can't figure out what it exactly means. A singularity means a point where some property is infinite. For example, at the center of a black hole, according to classical theory, the density is infinite (because a finite mass is compressed to a zero volume). Hence it is a singularity.
Central to his Singularity thesis is the concept that the technology and culture that humans make are part of the same process as the bodies they have evolved. Kurzweil presents this figure in The Singularity is Near to represent and support his view of exponential acceleration of human evolution.