I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor VingeI am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor VingeWhen 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.
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