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Vernor Vinge

"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."

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"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."

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"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
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"I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth."
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"But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will."
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"It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules."
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"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
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