Some of today's science fiction writers believe we are rapidly
approaching a point in time when fields like genetics, AI, nanotechnology
and physics will merge creating a period of rapid, life-changing discoveries
and inventions. A recent feature in Popular Science interviews three writers about the singularity event. Here is what
what author Vernor Vinge had to say:
Vernor Vinge, a computer scientist and science-fiction writer who’s now a
professor emeritus at San Diego State University. We're living through a
period of unprecedented technological and scientific advances, Vinge says,
and sometime soon the convergence of fields such as artificial intelligence
and biotechnology will push humanity past a tipping point, ushering in a
period of wrenching change. After that moment -- the Singularity -- the world
will be as different from today,s world as this one is from the Stone Age.
