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.

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

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

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.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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.