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What we have is a data glut.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Data
Glut

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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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 life had left for him.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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