Editing Technological singularity (section)

==In politics==
In 2007, the Joint Economic Committee of the [[United States Congress]] released a report about the future of nanotechnology. It predicts significant technological and political changes in the mid-term future, including possible technological singularity.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyp1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA375|title=Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society|first=David H.|last=Guston|date=14 July 2010|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4522-6617-6|access-date=4 November 2016|archive-date=15 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215095105/https://books.google.com/books?id=vyp1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA375|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20120213_TheFutureisComingSoonerThanYouThink.pdf | title=Nanotechnology: The Future is Coming Sooner Than You Think | publisher=Joint Economic Committee United States Congress| date=March 2007 | access-date=2012-04-29 | archive-date=2021-02-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215095048/http://www.thenewatlantis.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy-pdfs/20120213_TheFutureisComingSoonerThanYouThink.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="treder2007">{{cite web|url=http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2007/03/congress_and_th.html|title=Congress and the Singularity |work=Responsible Nanotechnology |first=Mike|last=Treder|date=March 31, 2007|access-date=2016-11-04|archive-date=2007-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407031516/https://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2007/03/congress_and_th.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Former [[President of the United States]] [[Barack Obama]] spoke about singularity in his interview to ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' in 2016:<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-interview/|title=Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World|first=Scott|last=Dadich|magazine=Wired|date=12 October 2016|access-date=4 November 2016|archive-date=3 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203142607/https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=One thing that we haven't talked about too much, and I just want to go back to, is we really have to think through the economic implications. Because most people aren't spending a lot of time right now worrying about singularity—they are worrying about "Well, is my job going to be replaced by a machine?"}}