X-Message-Number: 29127
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Vernor Vinge relinquishes the Singularity?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:10:30 -0800

This sounds like a potentially good talk; I wish I could attend. And it 
provides yet more evidence for the dragged-out, non-arrival of the 
"futuristic" world envisioned by 20th Century science fiction and futurology 
[Mark Plus]:


http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/

Seminars About Long-term Thinking
Thursday, February 15, 02007
Vernor Vinge
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?

Technology acceleration is like what happens approaching the singularity in 
the center of a black hole - everything is transformed utterly and 
unpredictably. That metaphor was invented by science fiction writer Vernor 
Vinge in 1980's and has entered standard usage as a way of thinking about 
the near future. In this talk Vinge challenges his own idea, investigating 
scenarios of "a human-scaled world with long time horizons," and how that 
might play out over ten or twenty thousand years.

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