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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
Computer Scientist
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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