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. Vernor Vinge Read Quote
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. Vernor Vinge Read Quote
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. Vernor Vinge Read Quote
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Vernor Vinge Read Quote
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work – the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. Vernor Vinge Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. Vernor Vinge Read Quote
