"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors." ― Vernor Vinge Topic(s): Science More From Vernor Vinge "But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence." "I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence." "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." More In Science "The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."― Ernst Mach "I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction."― Mayim Bialik "Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."― Aldous Huxley