I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. Vernor Vinge Intelligence
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. Vernor Vinge Science
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Vernor Vinge Intelligence
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. Vernor Vinge Intelligence