The second aspect of the Singularity that Stross takes a look at in his anti-Singularity arguments is the prospect of uploading the brain into a computer, which is apopularmeans in speculative fiction for a type of immortality.
The trouble is, while the definition ofa recession as two consecutive quarters of negative growth is widely accepted, there is no popular definition ofa depression, which means there is nowhere to go once recessions stop being relevant.
Advertising slogans are a barometer of the popular mood, so when images of soup lines are used in advertising it means Great Depression fear has saturated the culture.
In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popularmeansof transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.