Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
