Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Vernor VingeAnd for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
Vernor VingeAnother symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge