# From the Human Point of View by Vernor Vinge > "From the human point of view this change will be a throwing away of all the previous rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye, an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control." > **— Vernor Vinge**, *The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)* Verification Status: Verified against the NASA Technical Reports Server copy of Vinge’s 1993 VISION-21 paper. ## Sources and Context - **Primary source:** [Vernor Vinge, “The Coming Technological Singularity” (NASA VISION-21 Symposium, 1993)](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19940022856). - **Locator:** Section “What Is the Singularity?”, paragraph beginning “From the human point of view.” - **Editorial record:** The Reminder reproduces one complete contiguous source sentence. Punctuation and wording follow the NASA text. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] - [[wiki/Distributed Intention|Distributed Intention]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "From the human point of view this change will be a throwing away of all the previous rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye, an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control." — Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-vernor-vinge-human-point-view ```