Basic Information Technology Development and System Singularity: a Cybernetic Point of View
It is noted that the idea of the singularity of the civilizational development of Humankind as a singular point of the modeling function can be associated both with its tendency to infinity and with the convergence of model numerical series. The latter defines the concept of "information-system singularity" (ISS). So, the chronology of the emergence of basic information technologies (BIT) in the framework of the information-cybernetic model of the Humankind’s system uses the Zhirmunsky-Kuzmin series - a geometric progression with the denominator "e to the minus e". These are: ~28230-1860-123-8.1 thousand years ago-1446-1946-1979-1981-1981 - ... (converges around 1981). It has been established that ISS is embodied in two forms. The first relates to the convergence of the launches of new BITs (about ~1981). The second - to the sequence of culminations of these BITs, the moments of which (~9260-612-40.3-2.7 thousand years ago-1806-1970-2003-2341 (?) -...) are tied to the first, demonstrating an inflection around this date - a change the trend of its shortening for lengthening.