Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

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.

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.

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.