The writer Vernor Vinge forecast this in 1993. “When greater-than-human intelligence drives progress, that progress will be much more rapid. In fact, there seems no reason why progress itself would not involve the creation of still more intelligent entities -- on a still-shorter time scale,” he wrote, describing the singularity as “a point where our models must be discarded and a new reality rules.”
The singularity is here
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-477-in-which-i-tell-the?
Import Jack!
Roll your own approach
Prefer Kurz and Moravec to Gibson and Vinge, but liked Bradbury short, The Veldt recently.
And love the Shevek character of Le Guins. Before that Art Clarke and Asimov.
Named Stranger in a strange land after Heinleins book and read Dune twice.
Freenet founder is a Clarke - ian - the trifecta!
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