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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
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change
the-singularity
singularity
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Isaac Asimov |
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Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? Shakespeare over and over demonstrates life's singularity -- the irrevocability of our decisions, hasty and even mad though they be. How solemn and huge and deeply pathetic our life does loom in its once-and doneness, how inexorably linear, even though our rotating, revolving planet offers us the cycles of the day and of the year to suggest that existence is intrinsically cyclical, a playful spin, and that there will always be, tomorrow morning or the next, another chance.
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life
singularity
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John Updike |
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The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
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individuals
singularity
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Haruki Murakami |
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In the distance, the cat hears the sound of lobster minds singing in the void, a distant feed streaming from their cometary home as it drifts silently out through the asteroid belt, en route to a chilly encounter beyond Neptune. The lobsters sing of alienation and obsolescence, of intelligence too slow and tenuous to support the vicious pace of change that has sandblasted the human world until all the edges people cling to are jagged and brittle.
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singularity
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Charles Stross |
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Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
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singularity
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Charles Stross |
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The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)
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rapture-of-the-nerds
singularity
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Charles Stross |
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Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.
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the-singularity
singularity
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Richard Dooling |
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Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: That's not true, at least not yet.
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the-singularity
singularity
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Richard Dooling |
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These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
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singularity
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Cory Doctorow |
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...(W)hat is remarkable about the Greeks--even pre-philosophically--is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.
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philosophy
singularity
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Rebecca Goldstein |
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You know, the aspirants believe this is the only true existence. That everything outside is an illusion, a shadow play created by the ancestor gods to cradle us until we can build our own tailored reality and Upload into it. That's comforting, isn't it.
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science
singularity
transhumanism
theology
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Richard K. Morgan |