But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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.

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

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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?

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.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.