Technological singularity

The technological singularity (or the singularity) was an occurrence in 2041 in which artificial superintelligence sparked massive global technological growth and resulted in unfathomable changes to human civilization--most notably, the Great Shift.

With the singularity, upgradable technology entered an array of endless self-improvement cycles, with each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an intelligence explosion and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that surpassed all human intelligence. Though this originally struck fear in some that robots would take over, humans managed to gradually gear the new tech towards other ventures. Numerous other changes, from space exploration to supercomputers, have come about in years since.