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Nature 440, 411 (23 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440411a; Published online 22 March 2006
2020 Computing: The creativity machine
Vernor Vinge1
- Vernor Vinge is an emeritus professor of computer science at San Diego State University. His novel Rainbows End (2006) considers the Internet of 2025.
Abstract
What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations.
We humans have built a creativity machine. It's the sum of three things: a few hundred million computers, a communication system connecting those computers, and some millions of human beings using those computers and communications.
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