Vernor Vinge Essays

  • Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Mankind?

    744 Words  | 2 Pages

    From the first imaginative thought to manipulate nature to the development of complex astronomical concepts of space exploration, man continues to this day to innovate and invent products or methods that improve and enhance humankind. Though it has taken 150 million years to reach current day, the intellectual journey was not gradual in a linear sense. If one was to plot significant events occurring throughout human existence, Mankind’s ability to construct new ideas follows a logarithmic path

  • Childhood Memories of Time Spent With My Dog

    808 Words  | 2 Pages

    It was one life-changing experience, and I would never forget it. Everything fun begun from the first time we met, the year of our friendship building up, until something fairly poignant happened. It was a tragedy, and all I could think of was how much his heart was aching. I wanted him to know that he was a trustworthy, unique, caring, intelligent, and a loyal companion. However, he never got to know in time. The day we met started from when I got home from school. I decided to go biking in my

  • Essay On Technological Singularity

    555 Words  | 2 Pages

    which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue" [4][7]. The term was further made popular by computer scientist and mathematician Vernor Vinge in a 1993 NASA lectu...

  • The Controversy Over The Future Of Artificial Intelligence

    977 Words  | 2 Pages

    The future is full of unknowns. The entire science-fiction genre is devoted to proposing distant dreams in the worlds of science and technology, and humanity in the present is left to make these dreams into realities. Artificial intelligence is one example of a dream that is coming to fruition. Artificial intelligence refers to a machine that is “programmed to exhibit intelligence similar to that of human beings” (Artificial Intelligence 1). Some believe a machine of this sort would be beneficial

  • visual communication technologies

    1768 Words  | 4 Pages

    tracking of human face,eyes and audio technology Realtime 3D Spatial Audio _augmented reality in education and training _AR as a tool for medical teaching References: The Guardian : British national daily newspaper Rainbows End(2006) , Author: Vernor Vinge Going Visual: Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision-Making and Profits (2005) , Authors: Alexis Gerard, Bob Goldstein BUILDING A VIRTUAL COLLABORATIVE ENVIROMENT WITH IMAGE-BASED RENDERING (1999) , Author: Wing Ho Leung