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The Singularity Blinds Sci-Fi

Posted by michael on from the she-blinded-me-with-science dept.

foobsr writes "Popular Science has an article discussing the growing difficulties that Sci-Fi writers encounter when it comes to extrapolating current trends. Doctorow and Stross , both former computer programmers, are rated to be prototypes of a new breed of guides to a future which due to Vinge's Singularity might not happen for humanity once a proper super-intelligence - maybe as a Matrioshka Brain - has been created."

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  1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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