The creation of intelligence superior to human will occur in the next thirty years. ...This is the very point where our previous models stop working, and a new reality comes into its own. How will the approach of the Singularity affect the human worldview? And what happens for a couple of months (or a couple of days) after that? The only analogy I can point to is the emergence of humanity. We will find ourselves in a post-human era... - This is a quote from Vernor Vinge's keynote article "The Coming Technological Singularity", one of the most frequently cited works on artificial intelligence of the last 25 years.