Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

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

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.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

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.

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