The Acceleration

[oneirophrenia]

In Charles Stross' awesome new novel Glasshouse, which takes place app. 2700 CE, the term "Acceleration", rather than "Singularity", has been applied to the mid-20th-Century-to-mid-21st-Century exponential spike in technosocial development. This makes a great deal of sense since...well, what's happening now is an Acceleration, aimed asymptotically toward a Singularity that will always be just a bit beyond reach.

So, from here on out, Acceleration it is.