Authors:
  • Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

    "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.