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StefanEJones@dice.camp ("Stefan Edward Jones") wrote:
1997. I-Con SF convention on the SUNY Stony Brook campus.
We put Vernor Vinge and grey eminence of SF Frederik Pohl on a panel about the Singularity.
Before it started, Pohl asked "What is hell is the Singularity?"
I filled him in.
Right there, in front of Vinge:
"What a load of crap. Here's what's going to happen. We're going to burn through our resources, ruin the environment, civilization will collapse, and the survivors will despise us."