Frasi di Vernor Vinge

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
Contesto: I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. And yet … we are the initiators. Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. We have the freedom to establish initial conditions, make things happen in ways that are less inimical than others. Of course (as with starting avalanches), it may not be clear what the right guiding nudge really is...

Prologue (p. 4).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Contesto: The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.

Prologue (p. 1; opening words).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 18 (p. 226).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 161).
Contesto: If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 33 (p. 443).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 39 (p. 555).

A Deepness in the Sky (1999)

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 41 (p. 580).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 33 (p. 428).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), p. 245.

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 26 (p. 318).

Prologue (p. 2).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 109).

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 35 (pp. 483-484).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 373).

Epilogs (p. 595).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 32 (p. 397).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 119).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 519).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 145).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 18 (p. 228).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 5 (p. 51).

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

A Deepness in the Sky (1999)

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 122).

Origine: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 2 (p. 18).