Short, but sweet interview with Vernor Vinge on the singularity. This is a fascinating concept that deserves much more attention than it generally gets. Of course, most likely it will slip in unnoticed so that even if it happens in say 2020 it may not be noticed until 2050 when the effects become obvious to everyone.
Vinge is a great author of some wonderful SF novels (Deepness in the Sky is a good example), but I think the Singularity will end up more like the Industrial Revolution than some major shift in man's basic being.
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