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Vinge's paper of 1993 states that within thirty years there will be means to create superhuman intelligence and that the human era will then end, and describes the Singularity as the passing of humankind from the centre. Copy claim link
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Date 1993-12 · publication Records dated 1993 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A forecast stated by the author; it does not show that succession occurred. The paper also asks whether the outcome can be avoided or guided. The abstract's word order in the text layer differs from the printed line order; "stange" is the text layer's spelling.
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The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ NASA (VISION-21 proceedings, NASA Conference Publication 10129) · 1993-12
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Source excerpt “Within thirty years, we will have … means to create superhuman intelligence. … the human era will be ended.” Location in source Abstract, PDF p. 1 (proceedings p. 11)
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Source details and check notes Authors Vernor Vinge Version NASA Technical Reports Server scan of the proceedings pages, pp. 11–22; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash both candidate searches recorded, and checked against its text layer. The pre-1996 candidate search compared pp. 14–16 with the page images. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-04-15: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-04-15. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in VISION-21, NASA CP-10129 (1993), pp. 11–22. Reuse Public use permitted, according to the NASA Technical Reports Server record.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (17 words) was corrected at admission and matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-01 (SHA-256 943ee92903785b1b6c1cf2e85a22dc47cfdb372ef3295c572dee0a742e490acd). The printed abstract reads “the technological means”; the omission of “the technological” is marked (maintainer's decision of 2026-11-01 on the cross-family check, item 59). The text layer displaces those words. In the text layer "Shortly after," is displaced to later in the abstract. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 59) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ NASA (VISION-21 proceedings, NASA Conference Publication 10129) · 1993-12
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Source excerpt “The problem is not that the Singularity represents simply the passing of humankind from center stange, but that it contradicts some of our most deeply held notions of being.” Location in source Section before "Strong Superhumanity and the Best We Can Ask for", PDF p. 9
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Source details and check notes Authors Vernor Vinge Version NASA Technical Reports Server scan of the proceedings pages, pp. 11–22; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash both candidate searches recorded, and checked against its text layer. The pre-1996 candidate search compared pp. 14–16 with the page images. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-04-15: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-04-15. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in VISION-21, NASA CP-10129 (1993), pp. 11–22. Reuse Public use permitted, according to the NASA Technical Reports Server record.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (29 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 59) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. NASA CP-10129, December 1993 (dataset date).
Record ID ht-w01-vinge-1993-coming-technological-singularity