Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

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

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.