Love them internets

I haven't read this yet but it was linked to by David Brin and it's a speech given by Vernor Vinge. That's about as confident as I can be about a blind link. The speech is about the future of man. I am going to print it out and read it. Enjoy.

Oh yeah. He talks about the singularity in the speech. It's a concept pretty new to me and here's a definition from the website that has the text of Vinge's speech: Singularity

Defined by Vernor Vinge as the postulated point or short period in our future when our self-guided evolutionary development accelerates enormously (powered by nanotechnology, neuroscience, AI, and perhaps uploading) so that nothing beyond that time can reliably be conceived. The Singularity is a common matter of discussion in transhumanist circles. There is no concise definition, but usually the Singularity is meant as a future time when societal, scientific and economic change is so fast we cannot even imagine what will happen from our present perspective, and when humanity will become posthumanity. Another definition is the singular time when technological development will be at its fastest.