I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. -Vernor Vinge Intelligence
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. -Vernor Vinge Science
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. -Vernor Vinge Intelligence
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. -Vernor Vinge Intelligence
