But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

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

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

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

So much technology, so little talent.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

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