Singularity Quote by Vernor Vinge Download Open image “But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.” — Vernor Vinge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Singularity Technological Technology
“The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding… — Ray Kurzweil 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 and the… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The prediction that the Singularity—an expansion of human intelligence by a factor of trillions through merger with its nonbiological form—will occur within the next… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. — Nikola Tesla 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
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon,… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“The journey of a thousands suns begins today. Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger. To them I say… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
