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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] "It's extremely likely that within the next 100 years (I'm betting close to 50) we'll hit what SF author Vernor Vinge calls a technological singularity." This is really neither here nor there, but Vinge wasn't the first to propose the idea. Toffler's 1970 [i]Future Shock[/i] (which, funnily enough, was published just as the microchip revolution was kicking into full gear) also dealt with a super-industrial society that was changing at such rapid pace that people were overwhelmed, disoriented, disconnected, whathaveyou, and that was crumbling under the social problems brought about by it. Which is an argument in favor of Asimov's [i]Foundation[/i]: without the occasional plateau we'd all go bonkers. If we haven't already. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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