Someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn Sci-Fi writer Vernor Vinge come up with that idea, well if not the idea, the name "Singularity" and the current popularity of it? I've read about this for quite some time, and I am assuming its the same thing.
"Someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn Sci-Fi writer Vernor Vinge come up with that idea, well if not the idea, the name "Singularity"
You would be correct about that.
He helped originate the concept of technological singularity (describing the point beyond which human modelling cannot predict or explain things), but the term "singularity" is a standard scientific term for places or circumstances where normal scientific laws cannot explain the operations and behaviors at that place or condition. For example, superconductivity is an example of singularity, as is a black hole. So, AFAIK, in this case he simply applied an already existing term to a particular type of unknown.