Snappy one-liners
by Rob - April 7th, 2009.Filed under: Wake.
At least I think they’re snappy. I was asked by a magazine doing a piece about Wake for a one-liner they could use as a teaser. I gave them five, and told them to take their pick:
Ray Kurzweil says the singularity is near. Actually, it’s all around us.
The World Wide Web will soon have as many interconnections as a human brain. What happens then?
Consciousness is an emergent property of complexity. Our minds were the first example, but they won’t be the last.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t necessarily require a programmer.
Human intelligence didn’t require an intelligent designer — so why should we suppose artificial intelligence will?
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site