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Vernor Vinge on Singularity & Spimes

vernor vinge, author of rainbows end, and other award winning novels, as well as the original paper about the technological singularity presented at a nasa conference in 1993, converses with david orban of openspime.

technological singularity, its perimeters, and the issue of what is called hard take-off.
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• the future of networked smart sensors, spimes [ 1 ][ 2 ]. their promise, and dangers, as they develop and get widely adopted in society.

bruce sterling suggested the creation of a new type of technological device, called spime, that through pervasive rfid communications and gps navigation can track its history and interact with the world... the internet of things.

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