Vinge, V. (1993) The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Lewis Research Center, Vision 21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace: pp. 11–22.
Žižek, S. (2020) Sex and the Fail…Vinge, V. (1993) The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Lewis Research Center, Vision 21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace: pp. 11–22.
Žižek, S. (2020) Sex and the Fail…
Vernor Vinge
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Vinge is foundational to singularity discourse, having articulated the concept of technological singularity—the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and becomes incomprehensible to us—in his 1993 NASA paper that serves as a touchstone for debates about AI's existential implications. The course readings use Vinge's framework to ground conversations about posthuman futures and the limits of human prediction, particularly when read alongside Žižek's psychoanalytic critiques of utopian technological fantasies. His work establishes the theoretical scaffolding for asking whether AI development represents genuine transcendence or a projection of our own ideological desires onto the machine.
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