Quote

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.

Vernor Vinge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Inevitable
Consequence
Possibility
Singularity
Coming
Competitiveness
Technology
Argued
Natural
Inherent
Cannot
Prevent
Humans
Possibilities

More quotes by Vernor Vinge

Image
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge
Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Vernor Vinge
Image
So much technology, so little talent.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
Image
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
Vernor Vinge
Image
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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!
Vernor Vinge
Image
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
Image
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
Vernor Vinge
Image
What we have is a data glut.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge