Vernor Vinge Quotes About Understanding

• 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.

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• 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.

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  Vernor Vinge (2002). “The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge”, p.44, Macmillan

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• We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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  Vernor Vinge (2007). “A Deepness in the Sky”, p.753, Macmillan

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