Revisiting Vernor Vinge's 1993 essay that predicted superhuman AI within 30 years
PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES · reddit · 2026-09-08
A Reddit user revisits Vernor Vinge's 1993 essay 'The Coming Technological Singularity', sharing excerpts from the foundational text that first systematically argued superhuman machine intelligence could arrive within 30 years via growing hardware power or AI self-improvement, ending the human era.
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