Vernor Vinge

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Computer scientist and science fiction author Vernor Vinge (1944 – 2024), “The Coming Technological Singularity” (presented at the VISION-​21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30 – 31, 1993.)