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Technological Singularity

From: Don Papp <>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:21:16 -0600 (MDT)

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I was reading this writeup from Dr Vernor Vinge:

   http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

And ran acroos something very interesting.  I had not thought of wearables
in quite this way before.

The meat of it:

"we are on the edge of [...]the imminent creation by technology of
entities with greater than human intelligence.

There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough:

[...]

4) Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may
reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent."

We're getting there...

Don P
http://aeinnovations.com

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