History Quotes / TheSingularity

-->-- '''Creator/BruceSterling,''' "The Singularity: Your Future As A Black Hole," a speech to the Long Now Foundation, June 11, 2004

-->-- '''The Puppet Master''', ''Anime/GhostInTheShell''

->''"In a few years, it will all be over, and the human race will have divided in twain. There is no way back, and no future for the world you know. All the hopes and dreams of your race are ended now. You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them--will never even be able to communicate with their minds. [...] You will not think them human, and you will be right."''
-->-- '''Karellen''', ''[[Creator/ArthurCClarke Childhood's End]]''

-->-- '''[[{{Website/SomethingAwful}} Zack Parsons]]''', [[http://www.somethingawful.com/news/io-boing-singularity/ giving a decidedly negative view]]

-> ''"The post-human condition is banal. It's astounding and eschtalogical and ontological, and full of cosmic wonder, but only by human standards. Because we may become as gods… but that thrill fades fast. That thrill is merely human and parochial. By the new post-Singularity standards, post-humans are just as bored and frustrated as humans ever were. They're not magic. They're still quotidian entities in a gritty, rules-based physical universe. And they will find themselves swiftly and bruisingly brought up against the limits of their own condition… whatever that limit and that condition may be."''

-->-- '''Creator/BruceSterling,''' "The Singularity: Your Future As A Black Hole," a speech to the Long Now Foundation, June 11, 2004
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-->-- '''[[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/trek/next.html Justin B. Rye]]'''

-->-- '''The Puppet Master''', ''{{Ghost in the Shell}}''

-->-- '''Sister Miriam Godwinson''', ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

-->-- '''Academician Prokhor Zakharov''', ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

-->-- '''Karellen''', ''[[ArthurCClarke Childhood's End]]''

-->-- '''''{{pictures for sad children}}''''', [[http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=102 giving a slightly more negative view]]

-->-- '''{{Eliezer Yudkowsky}}'''

-->-- ''{{Serial Experiments Lain}}''

->''"there's a special kind of nerd though, who thinks computers will overtake humanity in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. so the singularity is the nerd way of saying "in the future being rich and white will be even more awesome." it's flying car bullshit: surely the world will conform to our speculative fiction, surely we're the ones who will get to live in the future, it gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment or warfare, and gives nerds something to obsess over , that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives"''

->''“Sarif was right about one thing, it’s in our nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable…but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it.These past few months, I was challenged many times, but more often than not, didn’t I try to keep morality in mind, knowing that my actions did not have to harm others? Time and time again, didn’t I resist the urge to abuse power and resources, simply to achieve my goals more swiftly? In the past we’ve had to compensate for weaknesses, finding quick solutions that only benefit a few. But what if we never have to feel weak or morally conflicted again? What if the path Sarif wants us to take enables us to hold on to higher values with more stability? One thing is obvious: for the first time, we have a chance to steal fire from the gods. To turn away from it now, to stop pursuing a future where technology and biology combine – leading to the promise of a [[TheSingularity Singularity]] – would be to deny the essence of who we are. No doubt the road to get there will be bumpy, hurting some people along the way. But won’t achieving the dream be worth it? We can become the gods we’ve always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it.”''
-->--'''Adam Jensen,''' ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' [[spoiler: Sarif/Pro-Augmentation Ending - Pacifist playthrough]]

-> ''"Singularitarians are the {{munchkin}}s of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.'""

->''"I have ''had'' it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per ''day''. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. ''None'' of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. We can ''end'' this."''
-->-- '''{{Eliezer Yudkowsky}}''', [[http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/singularity.html in counterpoint]]

->''"I have ''had'' it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per ''day''. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. ''None'' of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. [[http://singinst.org/ We can]] ''[[http://singinst.org/ end]]'' [[http://singinst.org/ this.]]"''

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->''"I have ''had'' it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger.I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per ''day''. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. ''None'' of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. [[http://singinst.org/ We can]] ''[[http://singinst.org/ end]]'' [[http://singinst.org/ this.]]"''

-->-- '''{{Serial Experiments Lain}}'''

-> The time has come to cast aside these bonds and to elevate our consciousness to a higher plane. It is time to become a part of all things!
-->-- ''The Puppet Master'', '''{{Ghost in the Shell}}'''

-> As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place to place, society will cross a psychological specific heat boundary and enter a new state. No longer a solid or liquid, we have become as a vapor and will expand to fill all available space. And like a gas, we shall not be easily contained.
-->-- ''Sister Miriam Godwinson'', '''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'''

-> We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly. The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths. Since the capability now exists to take our information directly from photons travelling molecular distances, the final act of the information revolution will soon be upon us.
-->-- ''Academician Prokhor Zakharov'', '''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'''

-> In a few years, it will all be over, and the human race will have divided in twain. There is no way back, and no future for the world you know. All the hopes and dreams of your race are ended now. You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them--will never even be able to communicate with their minds. [...] You will not think them human, and you will be right.
-->-- Karellen, '''[[ArthurCClarke Childhood's End]]'''

-> there's a special kind of nerd though, who thinks computers will overtake humanity in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. so the singularity is the nerd way of saying "in the future being rich and white will be even more awesome." it's flying car bullshit: surely the world will conform to our speculative fiction, surely we're the ones who will get to live in the future, it gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment or warfare, and gives nerds something to obsess over , that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives"
-->-- '''{{pictures for sad children}} , [[http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=102 giving a slightly more negative view]]'''

-> I have ''had'' it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger.I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per ''day''. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. ''None'' of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. [[http://singinst.org/ We can]] ''[[http://singinst.org/ end]]'' [[http://singinst.org/ this.]]
-->-- {{Eliezer Yudkowsky}}, [[http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/singularity.html in counterpoint]]

-> Singularitarians are the {{munchkin}}s of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.
-->-- {{Eliezer Yudkowsky}}

-->--EliezerYudkowsky

-> Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

->'''Lain Iwakura''': Huh?
-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': When it's all said and done, the Wired is just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?
-> '''Lain Iwakura''': You're wrong.\\
-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': Huh?
-> '''Lain Iwakura''': The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.
-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.\\
-> '''Lain Iwakura''': I can do it. I've modified mine.
-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': A Psyche processor, huh? But...\\
-> '''Lain Iwakura''': Don't worry. I'm still me.
-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': Sometimes I wonder.

->'''Iwakura, Yasuo''': Let me give you one little warning.

-> '''Lain Iwakura''': You're wrong.

-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.

-> '''Iwakura, Yasuo''': A Psyche processor, huh? But...