Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
"The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation, usually via AI or brain-computer interfaces, of smarter-than-human entities that rapidly accelerate technological progress."
3pointD.com - Blog Archive - Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC
http://www.3pointd.com/20060908/vernor-vinge-paints-the-future-at-agc
"Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new — and the fact that it was crap wouldn’t matter."
news @ nature.com-2020 ComputingThe creativity machine-What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060320/full/440411a.html
"In the end, computers plus networks plus people add up to something significantly greater than the parts."
Singular Vernor Vinge Page
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge