"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive?"

Vernor Vinge's notes for his talk at Seminars about Long-Term Thinking, 15 February 2007.

Transcript of Vinge's talk on his vision of the future as depicted in "Rainbows End".