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.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

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

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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.