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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge
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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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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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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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.
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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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.
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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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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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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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