Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

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

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.