In his writings, the computer scientist — and fabulist, although aren't they all, the good ones — Vernor Vinge, no uncertain proponent of the ever-developing Technological Singularity theory, noted that “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.” What he meant was that the end of the human era (which he argued would occur "[not before] 2005 or after 2030") would come with a whimper, not a bang — “even the largest avalanches are triggered by small things,” he added.

via Claire Evans' The Grid ————