Whoops. Got me. Very embarrassing. I tried to be fancy by grafting the ordinary, non-physics meaning of the word onto the more specific, scientific use. Just pretentious and ignorant--a really great combination.
> “This Watchman publication is what physicists call a singularity. There has been nothing like it before now, and there never will be again,” says Daniel Menaker, a former editor at Random House
You'd think someone in the business of words would be less likely to abuse terminology they don't understand.
The singularity line took me for a very mild loop & didn't distract from the article. It's disconcerting that carter can be taking advantage of the situation given all that Harper represents(maybe it takes a law degree:(
Metaphor. (Or Simile?) ==> That's one core competency for writers, and what will save their jobs from the software-eating-our-jobs phenomenon. Auto-generated sports event summaries, etc., can't hunt when it comes to style. I hear tech companies are hiring more editors and writers for their content.
I guess you have a point though in that they're comparing it to a Kurzweil Singularity, not the physics/math singularity.