If you study what is happening to San Francisco you can see where the Technological singularity is going

I was watching a program called "San Francisco 2.0"

1. San Francisco 2.0 l HBO Documentary Films l HBO -...

   http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/san-francisco-2-0

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2. San Francisco 2.0: Synopsis - HBO.com

   http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/san-francisco-2-0/synopsis....

   Synopsis for the HBO Documentary Film San Francisco 2.0.

3. San Francisco 2.0 (TV Movie 2015) - IMDb

   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5074414/

   39min | Documentary | TV Movie 28 September 2015 · San ... Videos. San Francisco 2.0 -- Acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi takes a look at the future of ... 

   
   

   This documentary to me typifies what the Technological Singularity is doing to Earth, one city and area at a time.

   
   

   The net effect is people who are not rich enough now are being driven from San Francisco one by one. So, people who have lived in San Francisco their whole lives are being driven out by rich Techies from Silicon valley moving to a more desirable place to live. As the rents rise people are either forced to leave because they cannot afford the rent or the owners evict them because they plan to redevelop or repurpose the land for something else that makes them more money. Developers are even driving the San Francisco Flower Market out of where it has been for over 50 years. There are only 5 of these types of wholesale flower markets in huge warehouses left in the U.S. so this will be a very very big loss to all flower shops who sell flowers throughout the San Francisco area.

   
   

   How this started was that the present mayor of San Francisco offered sweet deals to tech companies that wanted to move from silicon valley to San Francisco because everyone in Silicon Valley wanted to move to San Francisco because it is beautiful there and close enough to be bused to their work in Silicon Valley. So, the mayor realized if Tech companies actually were in San Francisco to begin with even more rich techies would live in San Francisco.

   
   

   Now unemployment went from 9% down to 5% within 2 years time but the problem now is rents and property have so exploded in value if you aren't above middle class you cannot live there.

   
   

   So, all the cultured things about San Francisco, are leaving because all the middle Class and lower people are being forced out by rents from $4000 a month or higher for anything useful you want to rent as an apartment or home. Most average people cannot afford these high a rents.

   
   

   Houses that would have sold for $400,000 until recently are selling for as high a 10 million dollars now. 

   
   

   The other part that was interesting to me is that how companies like UBER and Air BnB break all the rules and Most other Taxi services and Hotels are slowly going bankrupt trying to compete.

   
   

   But, if you study what Silicon Valley rich techies are doing to San Francisco, this is an example of what the Technological Singularity is starting to do to the whole earth.

   
   

   It is as big a thing or bigger than the last Industrial revolution we are moving through right now, for example.

   
   

   And I think people who are not educated into the tech world are mostly just going to be left behind wondering what happened to their lives like the presently thousands of people driven out of San Francisco who had lived their all their lives.

   
   

   So, the main consequence at present of the moving Technological Singularity is being driven from lives you have loved for people middle Class or below. And you are going to see this happening to people all around the world who don't know how to play by the new "Technological Singularity Rules of survival".

   
   

   It ends people's livelihoods, where they live, where they work and ends many people's lives permanently. This is the effect worldwide of the technological Singularity in action today.

   
   

   Evictions and unemployment and non-tech people losing their businesses to rent too high to keep a storefront, even if that business has been successful the last 100 years and still would be except for landlords charging 3 to 10 times more rent than the business owner can survive.

   
   

   So, for the middle Class and poor the Technological Singularity presently is "Ending good lives" for middle Class and poor people in cities all over the world.
   
   And all these changes and more that will make all or most people's heads spin will increase exponentially for another 10 to 25 years before we go into the peak of the present Singularity.
   
   The main question is: "Will human civilization and democracies survive this or become something else entirely?
   
   The 2nd question is: "Will the human race survive this Technological Singularity we are entering?"
   
   My question might be: "How can 50 to 75% of the relatively uneducated people of the world lose their livelihoods without bloody revolutions worse than anything we have seen so far being the result?"
   
   World War I and II were partly the results of the last Industrial Revolution here on earth for example.
   
   I'm not sure you can compare the Technological Singularity to an Industrial revolution, however.
   
   It is something completely different and at present "not completely even definable" because we really have no idea where it is going to end up at it's peak this time. And after that if humanity survives that one there might be more Technological Singularity peaks as well in fits and spurts over time.