Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

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?

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