Hanson’s article “Is a Singularity Just Around the Corner?” (Journal of Transhumanism, June 1998) says that if the rate of improvement in any one input consistently lags behind the rest, that input becomes a bottleneck limiting the growth rate of the entire process; the next paragraph names the training of professionals who understand computing and its applications as such a bottleneck.

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