In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

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

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

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

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.