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.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

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.

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

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.