When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

So much technology, so little talent.

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

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.

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.