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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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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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 dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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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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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 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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So much technology, so little talent.
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What we have is a data glut.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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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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