"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
- William Gibson
We founded Singular IT with the mission of helping people adopt a forward-looking approach to managing technology in their lives and business endeavors. All too often, people spend most of their time treading water, fighting gravity trying to pull them back down the slope when they should be advancing to new heights in business models, careers, and personal connectivity. We should measure success by how far we can go, not how many times we reset the development of the same problems over and over again.
Our goal is to help develop permanent solutions, to free up time and other resources to work on improvements instead of just trying to kee your head above water. We work toward the day that our services are obsolete, when we have already met and conquered all of these challenges. That is what Singular IT wants to do for you — help you meet all of your challenges; to help you identify, understand, and solve all of your problems, so that what you need tomorrow is not more of the same thing you needed today.
"Singular" means individual, unique, and remarkable. "IT" is an initialism that means Information Technology, referring to the technologies of digital computers and related fields, and the people who develop these technologies and orient them to useful purposes.
The deeper meaning of the name takes a little more explanation.
An increasing number of scholars, scientists, and technologists have become aware of the increasing rate of technological advancement in the world. Many have noted that it has accelerated pretty consistently for a very long time, and contributes to a world that changes more rapidly every day. They theorize about the long-term effects of this accelerating advancement, where every improvement in the state of the art serves as an enabler for many more advancements to come. Coupled with the consumerization of some of the most advanced technologies ever conceived placing computing systems on the desks, in the hands, and in the pockets of average individuals, often for far less than a month's pay, we are seeing a new renaissance where just about everyone can participate as a productive contributor to the development of the future.
Among emerging predictions about that future, trends that have continued for generations suggest that by the mid-2040s a thousand dollars could buy computing power equivalent to that provided by the sum of all human brains combined. For limited periods of time, the same can be true much sooner via "cloud computing" resources. The capabilities of technologists in such a future, whether working in corporate technology labs or their own living rooms and home offices, may be greatly enhanced by the implications of this kind of access to information technologies. That access will provide the facilities for modeling, rapid calculation, testing, and innovation on a scale and at a rate never seen before. Some theorize that this will lead to a dramatic shift in the course of human development, where no one can truly foresee what incredible results will arise, and that the rate of change may be so significant and its sources so widely distributed that Everything Changes. This theoretical inflection point has been dubbed the Technological Singularity.
The basic principles behind these theories revolve around the development of more automated and efficient ways of doing things, so that any lengthy, tedious, or uninteresting work that can be automated gets dealt with by technology rather than by human labor, freeing people's time to pursue bigger and better things. New ways of doing things can create new opportunities for achieving something new and important. Being able to fly around the world in hours rather than years is an incredible change, but interactive communication, essentially in "real time", with anyone in the world, may be a far more amazing and powerful addition to the pool of resources at our disposal. Who would have thought a few centuries ago that improved ability to interrupt each other in conversation would represent such a major advancement in human development?
The term "Singular IT", as a play on the word "singularity", is meant to capture the essence of these principles of advancement in a modest pun. Regardless of whether the theories of these scholars, scientists, and technologists come to fruition as a new era in the development of the human race or not, Singular IT aims to apply these principles of accelerating advancement to the benefit of its clients, helping them individually achieve great things, and contribute to a world where great achievements are increasingly normal.