By Futurist Thomas Frey
Why Everyone’s Asking the Wrong Question
Most people are still asking, “When will the Singularity happen?”—as if it’s a scheduled event on a cosmic calendar. They’re waiting for a singular moment when AI becomes smarter than humans, sparks an intelligence explosion, and everything changes overnight. But what if that’s the wrong framing entirely? What if the Singularity isn’t a single event—but a gradient, a slow-motion revolution we’ve already entered without realizing it? I believe that somewhere between 2022 and 2024, we quietly crossed the threshold. The Singularity didn’t arrive with fireworks—it slipped in unnoticed, woven into our tools, our workflows, and our daily decisions.
