At least Vinge has a better sense of history: he cites Claude Shannon as his source for the concept.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM, delancey <[email protected]> wrote: > The NYT has a huge article about the Singuliarty (in the business > section, because it uses Singularity University as its context), which > (1) never mentions SF or the SF sources of the concept, and (2) seems > to think the concept was entirely invented by Kurzweil and is now > wholly owned by Google. Alas. Even a WIki search could have shown > them better.... > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?sq=singularity&st=Search&scp=1&pagewanted=all > > cd > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
