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Vinge’s paper “The Coming Technological Singularity” (1993) says that the cause of the coming change is the creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence, and calls the event a singularity: a point where existing models must be discarded. Copy claim link
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Date 1993-12 · publication Records dated 1993 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Later than Vinge (1983). The dataset records this paper on A1, A4, A5, B2, B6, C3 and W01, among others; U03 is a separate proposition. The same paper quotes Ulam’s 1958 sentence and says von Neumann was ‘still thinking of normal progress, not the creation of superhuman intellect’.
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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 “The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.” Location in source Printed p. 12 (PDF page 2), section “What is The Singularity?”, first paragraph
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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, antecedent texts (research/prehistory). The quotation (19 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-04 (SHA-256 943ee9290378…, the file the candidate pack read). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Matched against the text layer. 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 “I think it's fair to call this event a singularity ("the Singularity" for the purposes of this paper). It is a point where our models must be discarded and a new reality rules.” Location in source Printed p. 12 (PDF page 2), same section
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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, antecedent texts (research/prehistory). The quotation (33 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-04 (SHA-256 943ee9290378…, the file the candidate pack read). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Matched against the text layer. 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. Publication of the proceedings, catalogued by NASA’s Technical Reports Server as 1 December 1993; recorded at month precision because the day may be conventional.
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