"Did your Rex ever mention to you a hypothesis which used to be entertained in the days when quasi-intelligent machines, advanced computers and so forth were just beginning to make their impact on society? The hypothesis I refer to was this: that machines more complex than the human brain might be instructed to evolve still more complex examples of their kind, and thee in turn to evolve others until finally they transcended human ability to comprehend their workings?"
---'The Rites of Ohe', John Brunner, 1963
From what did the Cult of Singularity spring? Certainly the basic concepts are a re-working of John of Patmos' bitter ravings, but at what point was the Lovecraftian nightmare of a logic-gate embodied deity invented?
"...I/O,I/O, Cthuhlu fthagn or xor nor and not nand xor..."
