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Eric Raymond declares the Singularity is upon us

development2025-12-28

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Open source pioneer Eric S. Raymond declared that the Singularity is upon us, relegating fifty years of hardware history to a prologue.

Reporting date: 2025-12-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 28, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to December 28, 2025

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Eric S. Raymond

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Practitioners start saying it out loud

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Eric Raymond declares the Singularity is upon us
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2025-12-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-28-esr-singularity-upon-us
Claim: Open source pioneer Eric S. Raymond declared that the Singularity is upon us, relegating fifty years of hardware history to a prologue.
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- Welcome to December 28, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-28-2025
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