Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all

Vernor Vinge
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories. ✨ A Fire Upon the Deep. Book by Vernor Vinge, April 1992.
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Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than o … ▶

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories. ✨ A Fire Upon the Deep. Book by Vernor Vinge, April 1992.

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