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Quotes from The Coming Technological Singularity — Vernor Vinge

1944–2024 United States

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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

The "hard" science-fiction writers are the ones who try to write specific stories about all that technology may do for us. More and more, these writers felt an opaque wall across the future. Once, they could put such fantasies millions of years in the future. Now they saw that their most diligent extrapolations resulted in the unknowable ... soon.

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

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