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<DIV><DIV> <DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV><B>“BOOKWORM, RUN!”</B></DIV><DIV>I was a child in the 1950s, a little boy who could talk and write better than he could think, but who had a good imagination, and read everything he could by people much smarter than he. I wanted to know the future of science, to participate in revolutions to come.</DIV><DIV>Science fiction seemed a window on all this. I wanted interstellar empires (interplanetary ones at the least). I wanted supercomputers and artificial intelligence and effective immortality. All seemed possible. In fact, our technological success is ultimately based on intelligence. If we could use <I>technology</I> to increase (or create) intelligence …</DIV><DIV>The first story I ever wrote (that sold) was a look at this idea. Instead of Artificial Intelligence (Al), I used Intelligence Amplification (IA). The means seemed at hand: After all (I thought) what is memory but retrieval of information? Why couldn’t human reason be augmented by hardware? (Perhaps it’s fortunate that at the time I had no technical knowledge of computers. I might have become discouraged, ended up writing <I>really</I> hardcore science-fiction … about punch cards and ba
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Vinge, Vernor
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312873738
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (764 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13