{"id":85866,"date":"2018-12-15T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/author-vernor-vinge-proposing-a-singular-view-of-technologys-future"},"modified":"2018-12-15T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T23:22:23","slug":"author-vernor-vinge-proposing-a-singular-view-of-technologys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/author-vernor-vinge-proposing-a-singular-view-of-technologys-future","title":{"rendered":"Author Vernor Vinge: Proposing a singular view of technology\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/author-vernor-vinge-proposing-a-singular-view-of-technologys-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Technological Singularity arrives, you can\u2019t even imagine what the future will hold afterwards. Just ask author Vernor Vinge.<\/p>\n<p>A five-time Hugo Award-winning author (among various other awards and accolades), Vernor Vinge has been writing and speculating about AI and intelligence amplification for over half a century. As part of his storied career, an interesting anecdote concerns a rejection letter he received from legendary science fiction editor and publisher John W. Campbell, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Early in his career, Vinge had proposed a story about a human being with amplified intelligence and (as Vinge relates in his short story collection) Campbell wrote him back with the comment, \u201cSorry \u2014 you can\u2019t write this story. Neither can anyone else.\u201d Jump forward a few decades, and Vinge delivered a paper to NASA entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edoras.sdsu.edu\/~vinge\/misc\/singularity.html\">The Coming Technological Singularity<\/a><\/em> in which he foresaw a moment when artificial intelligence will develop exponentially until it reached a point that surpasses humanity\u2019s ability to comprehend. It is intelligence so far superior that we can\u2019t even imagine what it would be like. And then what?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thomsonreuters.com\/answerson\/author-vernor-vinge-proposing-a-singular-view-of-technologys-future\/\">https:\/\/blogs.thomsonreuters.com\/answerson\/author-vernor-vin...ys-future\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Technological Singularity arrives, you can\u2019t even imagine what the future will hold afterwards. Just ask author Vernor Vinge. A five-time Hugo Award-winning author (among various other awards and accolades), Vernor Vinge has been writing and speculating about AI and intelligence amplification for over half a century. As part of his storied career, an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}