Author: Vernor Vinge

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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

- Vernor Vinge

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

- Vernor Vinge

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.

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

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

- Vernor Vinge

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

- Vernor Vinge

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