Samuel Butler and the Technological Singularity

Singularity Weblog
09/06/2025
Samuel Butler and the Technological Singularity

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It was during the relatively low-tech mid-19th century that Samuel Butler wrote his startling essay, Darwin among the Machines. In it, Butler fused two emerging forces of his time: the rapid industrial transformation brought by machines, and Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. The result? A radical, unsettling vision: that machines were not merely […]

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