Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vingeis a retired San Diego State UniversityProfessor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbows End, Fast Times at Fairmont High, and The Cookie Monster, as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that the creation of superhuman artificial intelligence will mark the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 February 1944
CountryUnited States of America
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
So much technology, so little talent.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
What we have is a data glut.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?