The Crash of the Human Brain Project

Four reflections upon the unfulfilled promises of the Human Brain Project.
In 1993, Vernor Vinge’s article ‘The Coming Technological Singularity’ outlined his vision of the ‘Singularity’. Later, in his 2005 book ‘The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology’, Ray Kurzweil championed and further elaborated on Vernor Vinges’s idea of the ‘Singularity’.