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.
There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual. Kurzweil estimates that the Singularity will happen in the year 2045. But that's not all. The Singularity, which is to say a humanity which has merged with technology, will turn its own intelligence into pure energy and saturate the universe at, or beyond, the speed of light. In the aftermath of the Singularity, intelligence, derived from its biological origins in human brains an its technological origins in human ingenuity, will begin to saturate the matter and energy in its midst.